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Largest U.S. Bank Cuts Ties, CancelingTrump Jr. Event

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Largest U.S. Bank Cuts Ties to Conservative Group, Canceling Donald Trump Jr. Event

The country's largest bank has cut ties with a Missouri conservative group, forcing an event that had been set to feature Donald Trump Jr. to be immediately canceled.

[....] Defense of Liberty founder Paul Curtman, a former GOP state representative, told the Missouri Independent that WePay informed him in a message that it would no longer do business with his group based on an alleged violation of terms of service and had refunded $30,000 in payments already processed for the event.

"It seems you're using WePay Payments for one or more of the activities prohibited by our terms of service," the message reportedly states. "More specifically: Per our terms of service, we are unable to process for hate, violence, racial intolerance, terrorism, the financial exploitation of a crime, or items or activities that encourage, promote, facilitate, or instruct others regarding the same."

Maybe Trump Jr and Defense of Liberty political action committee should not promote such things?

Or . . . maybe those things are their core message, and appeal to their base.

 

Reply to: Interesting question on discrimination

    (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 18 2021, @11:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 18 2021, @11:52PM (#1197610)

    Banks aren't allowed to discriminate on race. This is blackletter law, and long established (for those of you who got to the party late, check out "redlining"). Ditto other "protected classes" (such as sex and religion).

    But at some point we have to ask whether exercising civil liberties should deserve the same protection? Otherwise we could have a situation where Farmer John gets a shotgun to protect his chickens, and now can't have a bank account, can't buy a vehicle, basically cut out of major services, even though the law says that shotguns are A-OK. Far-fetched, perhaps, but what about people insisting on fourth and fifth amendment protections in court? What about people saying unpopular things?

    "Bigfoot lives!"

    "No soup for YOU!"

    I can even see a public policy reason for not wanting this to become the norm; the government is desperately trying to get people out from being "unbanked" - if participation in the wrong protest, or membership of the wrong online forum is now a reason to drop them, suddenly that reverses a major policy goal.

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