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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: 2) by DannyB on Friday November 19 2021, @10:15PM (2 children)
Nailed it in one Mr. Garibaldi.
Any company should be forced to do things or serve customers it does not like, if I like those things.
Any company should never be forced to do things or serve customers it does not like, if I don't like those things.
Totally typical of Republicans. Every single time.
They can never put themselves in someone else's shoos. Or see things from someone else's perspective. The rules are fluid depending on whether I like it or not.
Same for Big Tech and censorship:
* Big Tech should not be able to censor views of parties I happen to like, even if they spread misinformation and lies
* Web sites like Parler, Gab, etc, should not be forced to host radical left wing content based on reality and facts
If a minstrel has musical instruments attached to his bicycle, can it be called a minstrel cycle?
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday November 20 2021, @02:06AM (1 child)
A bakery is not a bank. Don't know what your shtick is here, but you're not answering relevant questions or acknowledging the flaws in your argument. We cannot allow basic services to be discriminatory or administered politically in any way.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @10:41PM
That is an often misunderstood ruling. By law the bakery was required to sell any advertised* cake to anyone who paid the advertised price. What they didn't have to do was personalized decorations, because custom work is explicitly exempt in that law. That same law is supposed to apply to every business that sells goods or services to the public. As banks advertise and sell financial services to the public they shouldn't be allowed to play favourites. If you pay the listed fees then you should receive the listed services.
*This includes any display item in the store.