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Reading that wiki, nothing jumped out to me as unreasonable - at least the goal of Choke Point. What's wrong with targeting industries with high risk/incidence
by halfmatthalfcat 4y ago
Reading that wiki, nothing jumped out to me as unreasonable - at least the goal of Choke Point. What's wrong with targeting industries with high risk/incidence of money laundering?
Is there high incidence of money laundering in sex work? If there is, then it's not exempt from being investigated. This isn't a reflection on the act of sex work but the shady characters using it as a laundering mechanism.
- bko 4y agoIt's about the implementation. I believe something should be illegal or legal. If it's legal all the same rights and services should be granted to individuals in this trade. Fraud and charge backs should be handled by the services processors and new services should arise to handle higher risk industries. Better than the state putting their finger on the scales https://www.vice.com/en/article/4w74jg/how-the-financial-sector-is-making-life-miserable-for-sex-workers-714 https://www.vice.com/en/article/4w74jg/how-the-financial-sec...
- Ancapistani 4y agoA ton of gun stores lost their banking access as a result of this. Bank of America, IIRC, dropped a bunch of retailers with no notice. It’s definitely seen in that community as a back-door attempt to abrogate access to firearms.
- collegeburner 4y agoIt's really screwed up, most of the people I know who go fucked over were LGS owners and employees, like they weren't already having a hard enough time staying in business. You know, the kind of people who can actually help create a community of safe, responsible firearms use with their trainings outreach efforts etc.