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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 19 2021, @03:59AM (9 children)
There are protected classes of people for just that reason. Opinions have never been a qualifier for protection that I know of. Speaking of straw men, are you on your way to find the wizard? The wonderful wizard of Oz?
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday November 19 2021, @06:05AM (8 children)
Sorry, "protected" or not, no discrimination by basic utilities allowed. Banking, electricity, phone, internet, etc must be made accessible to everybody without prejudice of any kind.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 19 2021, @06:09AM (1 child)
There are always exceptions such as criminal hackers not allowed online. But yes, agreed on basic services. Maybe less goalpost moving in your discussions, or at least learn how to segway[sp] better.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday November 19 2021, @06:16AM
I'm not playing football. Just pay better attention, too much personal bias can distort perceptions.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @02:29AM (5 children)
And certainly anyone who has a court order against them accessing the internet will be legally denied internet service.
Can't pay for web hosting? Want to run a site that violates the ToS of free hosting services? So sad, too bad, sux 2 B U.
Bad credit risk? Loan or credit denied. Housing denied unless you have a guarantor (co-signer). (but you already knew that).
Criminal history? Forget about being hired in nany jobs, or even being allowed to do volunteer work. Or serve on a jury.
No vaccine passport? No entry in many places - and yes, even essential services such as stores can still bar you under the pretext of workplace safety, so you work in essential services and aren't vaxxed, you can be considered to have quit.
History of disruptive behaviour? No bus or taxi service for you.
Deposited fake cheques or even an empty envelope to commit ATM fraud? Banking privileges revoked.
At one point during the pandemic 20% of the US had their water shut off for unpaid water bills. Water is essential. But people were still being cut off.
Skip out on leases too many times? Don't be surprised nobody rents a place to you. All legal.
Shoplifting? Barred, even if the store is one that provides essential services.
No shoes, no shirt, no service. etc, etc, etc.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @07:13AM
fascist
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @05:26PM (3 children)
These examples are materially different in that they have direct bearing on the commercial relationship in question, not external, unrelated activities.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @08:17PM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @09:07PM
Just more fascism. You are a bad person
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday November 21 2021, @09:29AM
Wikileaks != Assange. And "non-resident"? "Foreign country"? Where do you think those banking services reside? The Moon?
Why would the bank have an expectation that the account could be used fraudulently? My take is that if we don't take a stand against this nonsense, it's just going to get worse.