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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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @05:26PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @05:26PM (#1198097)

    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)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @08:17PM (#1198135)
    And a non-resident (Assang) in a foreign country wants banking services while holed up in an embassy, unable to be sued if his account is used for suspicious transactions? It's certainly valid to deny him services. No assets seizable should the account be used fraudulently.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @09:07PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 20 2021, @09:07PM (#1198150)

      Just more fascism. You are a bad person

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday November 21 2021, @09:29AM

      by khallow (3766) on Sunday November 21 2021, @09:29AM (#1198292) Journal

      And a non-resident (Assang) in a foreign country wants banking services

      Wikileaks != Assange. And "non-resident"? "Foreign country"? Where do you think those banking services reside? The Moon?

      No assets seizable should the account be used fraudulently.

      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.