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Logical fallacy. The fact that some payment processors still exist does not overcome the prima facie fact that at least one startup (and probably more than one) was put out of business by this law.

Thus, if you agree that startups are engines of innovation, innovation was prevented.

If you support a regulation you must be intellectually honest enough to acknowledge its empirical costs in addition to claiming its theoretical benefits.



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