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Perhaps not, but it's not exactly leaving them alone either: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa8xy9/is-the-doj-forcing-banks-to-terminate-the-accounts-of-porn-s
by sbuttgereit 5y ago
Perhaps not, but it's not exactly leaving them alone either:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa8xy9/is-the-doj-forcing-banks-to-terminate-the-accounts-of-porn-stars https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa8xy9/is-the-doj-forcing-ba...
- actually_a_dog 5y agoSo? Spin off everything "risky" into another corporate entity, and charge more. The simple fact that they don't do this tells me they just don't want to.
- Godel_unicode 5y agoThis is America, nobody will ever take seriously the argument that it's not the government doing it when they can get cheap internet points by saying "but muh freedoms!1!!"
- nl 5y agoIf an article asking questions about it from 2014 is the most compelling piece of evidence that this is a serious issue then I'd say it isn't particularly compelling. Note that the "Operation Chokepoint" wasn't just about porn - it was also shutting down payday lenders and firearm dealers. The operation was stopped by the government in 2016 and bipartisan legislation passed in 2017 to stop it happening again: https://www.forbes.com/sites/norbertmichel/2018/11/05/newly-unsealed-documents-show-top-fdic-officials-running-operation-choke-point/?sh=484f6c271191 https://www.forbes.com/sites/norbertmichel/2018/11/05/newly-...