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The worst are banks and payment processors who sttaight out censor legal businesses. If porn/weed/crypto or other stuff is legal, then the bank should not be m
by rvba 3y ago
The worst are banks and payment processors who sttaight out censor legal businesses.
If porn/weed/crypto or other stuff is legal, then the bank should not be moral police and close their account. Banks are not police, or judicary system and one cannot run a company without a bank account.
If they explain this with risk, then there should be some special state run bank that handles higher risk customers - and for example freezes money for some time to check everything. But at least does not close the account
- bell-cot 3y ago> If they explain this with risk, then there should be some special state run bank... Reasonable...but could you describe the elected politicians who will vote to establish that special state-run bank, and keep it going?
- pasc1878 3y agoThe risk here is that someone against porn etc will 9and have) sued them for helping bad activities. TYhe cost is too high for the credit card companies. In this case the pressure on a government payment system would be even higher as no politician could afford to support something helping porn.
- commandlinefan 3y ago> banks and payment processors OTOH, I doubt the banks themselves are doing it for personal moral reasons, rather because of outside pressure. They're doing it out of fear of the power that picketers have over their actual livelihood.
- brandonmenc 3y ago> Banks are not police, or judicary system This is a “feature”, not a bug. Passing real laws is hard. Easier to get the huge near monopolies the citizenry de facto require to exist to enforce your shadow legal system. Remember, the first amendment only applies to the government, and you technically won’t die without a bank account or internet access!