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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday August 26 2017, @10:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the brown-chicken-brown-cow dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

You may recall that in 2014 we wrote about a strange occurrence having to do with Chase Bank refusing to provide its banking services to Teagan Presley, a rather well known adult film actress. When it became clear that Presley wasn't the only performer to whom this was happening, it initially looked as though banks were engaging in a form of slut-shaming of adult film actors. It turned out, however, that it was the federal government doing the slut-shaming, with the emergence of the Department of Justice's Operation Choke Point. This DOJ policy that was developed to combat financial fraud somehow bled over the stencil lines and became a sort of banking morality police, encouraging banks to cut off services to industries like adult film, fireworks retail stores, and sellers engaged in what the DOJ deemed to be "racist materials." It's worth highlighting that all of these industries and actions, whether you like them or not, are legal, yet the DOJ was essentially attempting to extra-judiciously scuttle them through secretive federal policy. That should have terrified everyone, but didn't, and so the program went on.

Until recently. The justice department recently announced that Operation Choke Point will be ended.

The move hands a big victory to Republican lawmakers who charged that the initiative — dubbed "Operation Choke Point" — was hurting legitimate businesses. In a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd referred to the program as "a misguided initiative."

"We share your view that law abiding businesses should not be targeted simply for operating in an industry that a particular administration might disfavor," says the letter, obtained by progressive activist group Allied Progress and later provided to POLITICO by Goodlatte's office. "Enforcement decisions should always be made based on facts and the applicable law. We reiterate that the Department will not discourage the provision of financial services to lawful industries, including businesses engaged in short-term lending and firearms-related activities," it adds. A nearly identical letter was sent to Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho).

I was more annoyed by their use of it against gun stores but good riddance regardless.

Source: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170818/11113638027/doj-to-end-operation-chokepoint-porn-stars-free-to-bank-once-more.shtml

Previously:
Adult Film Stars' Bank Accounts Closed


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday August 26 2017, @10:55PM (3 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday August 26 2017, @10:55PM (#559619) Homepage

    That's news to me. I always thought that liberals were all for degeneracy. Huh -- oh well, Trump is making America great again in repealing that draconinan law and dismantling the Chicago politics of the lawless Obama DOJ.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @11:15PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @11:15PM (#559630)

    Why so stupid?

    • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 27 2017, @12:38AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 27 2017, @12:38AM (#559655)

      it's e-f? nuff said?

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by davester666 on Sunday August 27 2017, @07:52PM

    by davester666 (155) on Sunday August 27 2017, @07:52PM (#559906)

    If there is one thing that bible-thumpers like, it's porn. And if you expand the list to two things, it's banging children.