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This is a little victim blamey. Banks mess up all the time. Regressive policies in capitalist institutions are extremely common. Incompetence is common. Negativ
by zoeysmithe 3y ago
This is a little victim blamey. Banks mess up all the time. Regressive policies in capitalist institutions are extremely common. Incompetence is common. Negative action in service of the profit incentive is common.
There's no shortage of people who found their accounts closed for "fraud" who did nothing wrong, but instead were victimized by the algo and the general incompetence of banking tech.
Personal financial experts often tell people to carry a credit card from a bank that isn't yours or have a checking account at a separate bank because this is so common.
Lastly, the people moving money to blacklisted places aren't opening Bank of America checking accounts. There's entire cottage industries and crypto and shady international banks, etc ready to cater to them. They're not getting banned because they use services that don't ban them for moving money around like this. But everyday working class people get banned randomly for moving gifts or tuition money around, etc.
- r3trohack3r 3y ago> The people moving money to blacklisted places aren't opening Bank of America checking accounts. My understanding of money laundering, and the laws designed to catch it, wasn’t that it’s used to get money into illegal places. Laundering is used to get money back out of illegal places in a way they can spend as legal money - exactly a Bank of America account.