Because of their stranglehold on the transaction market, it can be argued that they are a monopoly and perhaps subject to anti-trust legislation. Also the fact that they may have acted in concert may be deemed anti-competitive; there is plenty of legislation that the EFF can fight with. Admittedly it would be breaking new legal ground, but that hasn't stopped the EFF bringing such actions before.

Also by having a stranglehold on a particular market it is possible that you have a "right" to have your transactions processed, in the same way as internet access is in some countries, beginning to be seen as a right.

IIRC the payment processors have performed this economic blockade without due process or a legal ruling, so to clobber this organisation would take a court hearing, which may be what EFF is angling for.

Maybe you should organise them all with redundant interconnects; lets call it a Beowulf cluster of these....

Gravity maybe; any sufficiently large space station will have its own attractive force, whether due to its own size, or producing articifial gravity for it's crew.

If Santa was using Apple Maps, your presents would be delivered down someone's chimney 7 miles away......

Not enough sharks

When you put links to Tubgirl and Goetse on top of realtors(estate agents) QR codes

Also if you look at the OPs list of comments, there is just this single comment - the account was obviously set up for just this one article. A normal commenter will post often and on a wide range of subjects.

There are plenty of ways to bribe people, perhaps you would like come out to this extremely nice 5* restaurant whilst we discuss the matter. Don't forget to bring your wife/mistress too.

Its a British engine - all our beer is warm! We're actually trying for the worlds fastest ice cream van....

I couldn't decide whether your comment was +1 Funny, +1 Insightful or +1 Tragic

-1: No Sharks involved

Correction, the latter is a hate-filled gutter rag read by a huge part of middle class England which believes what it prints (which is the real problem)

Indian men are underdeveloped

That would be all well and good if Gabon was likely to earn millions in revenue from it. It's more likely to earn only a small fee (less than $25?) for the domain name registration.

Not withstanding that, it seems fairly obvious that this is due to US pressure.