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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: Re:Interesting question on discrimination

    (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @03:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @03:54AM (#1197990)

    So, if I'm reading your position correctly, people forfeit their right to freedom of religion if they want to have a business, and the government can use private businesses as proxies to exact a prohibitive toll on the exercise of disfavoured civil liberties.

    See the common thread of civil liberties there? The baker wanted to retain his (even after the Colorado commission openly disparaged them, and him), and the bank isn't laying claim to anything about civil liberties but is assailing the civil liberties of its customers - and unlike bakers, banks have close regulatory ties with the federal government.

    Now, I don't honestly know what the republicans/conservatives on this site think, but if I were to take a wild guess, I'd lay pretty fair odds that somehow they're the one concerned about civil liberties, here, and that they're being consistent about it. From my perspective as an ACLU-supporting liberal sort of guy, you seem to think that civil liberties are icky because nasty people use them to make you cry. Maybe you should consider that pluralism isn't all bad, for a nation?

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