This only becomes a censorship issue IF Mastercard is viewed as a monopoly. Seeing as VISA and Mastercard have some of the same people on the board, they're virtually one operation in my opinion. They also have a very large majority of the market for (online) creditcard processing.
If they were legally considered a monopoly (which you surely dont need 100% of the market to be considered) then they shouldn't be allowed to do this.
As far as I know, they're not considered a monopoly though, so there is no
censorship issue.
Whether or not they SHOULD be looked upon as a monopoly is another question however.
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