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The U.S. Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa on Tuesday, alleging that the financial services behemoth uses its size and dominance to stifle competition in the debit card market, costing consumers and businesses billions of dollars.

美国司法部周二对 Visa 提起反垄断诉讼，指控这家金融服务巨头利用其规模和主导地位扼杀借记卡市场的竞争，使消费者和企业损失数十亿美元。

The complaint says Visa penalizes merchants and banks who don't use Visa's own payment processing technology to process debit transactions, even though alternatives exist. Visa earns an incremental fee from every transaction processed on its network.

起诉书称，Visa 对不使用 Visa 自己的支付处理技术处理借记交易的商家和银行进行处罚，尽管存在替代方案。Visa 从其网络上处理的每笔交易中赚取增量费用。

According to the DOJ's complaint, 60% of debit transactions in the United States run on Visa's debit network, allowing it to charge over $7 billion in fees each year for processing those transactions.

根据司法部的起诉书，美国 60% 的借记交易在 Visa 的借记网络上运行，这使得 Visa 每年可以收取超过 70 亿美元的费用来处理这些交易。

"We allege that Visa has unlawfully amassed the power to extract fees that far exceed what it could charge in a competitive market," said Attorney General Merrick Garland in a statement. "Merchants and banks pass along those costs to consumers, either by raising prices or reducing quality or service. As a result, Visa's unlawful conduct affects not just the price of one thing — but the price of nearly everything."

“我们指控 Visa 非法获得了收取费用的权力，这些费用远远超过其在竞争激烈的市场中可以收取的费用，”司法部长梅里克·加兰德在一份声明中表示。 “商家和银行通过提高价格或降低质量或服务将这些成本转嫁给消费者。因此，Visa 的违法行为不仅影响一种商品的价格，而且影响几乎所有商品的价格。”

The Biden administration has aggressively gone after U.S. companies that it says act like middlemen, such as Ticketmaster parent Live Nation and the real estate software company RealPage, accusing them of burdening Americans with nonsensical fees and anticompetitive behavior. The administration has also brought charges of monopolistic behavior against technology giants such as Apple and Google.

拜登政府积极追查美国公司，称这些公司充当中间人，例如 Ticketmaster 母公司 Live Nation 和房地产软件公司 RealPage，指责它们向美国人收取无意义的费用和反竞争行为。该政府还对苹果和谷歌等科技巨头提出了垄断行为的指控。

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