Considering the places whose accounts are being shut down, I'm not surprised. A private company isn't going to want to end up on the wrong end of sanctions due to whom they're enabling. Places like Consortium News and Mint Press are pretty far out there with the conspiracy theories already, but the Russian propaganda would be what killed their accounts.<p>All of these financial companies that don't have legal requirements otherwise use the same playbook: Be very trigger-happy, and have a boilerplate "go away" message that gives them maximum maneuverability and reveals no further information that would invite argument (the more their representatives talk, the greater the risk of legal liability).<p>When I got booted from N26, I kept calling customer service to inquire about it until finally one of the operators broke protocol and told me that the rules require her to hang up on me the moment I mention the closure of my account (and then hung up, of course).<p>It's nothing personal; they're just protecting their bottom line (which is why most financial institutions are bound by consumer protection laws).
Links to the mentioned news sites sites: <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/" rel="nofollow">https://consortiumnews.com/</a> & <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mintpressnews.com/</a>
Assuming no context is required other than the reporting here, this is rather disturbing. On the other hand, it’s hard for me to take the moral vicissitudes of jacobinmag regarding tech censoriousness seriously, given their coverage of Parler and related issues.
States should start passing "must-bank" laws which require financial service companies to serve any and all clients unless ordered otherwise by a judge for criminal actions
I left Reddit after ten years because of unnecessary censorship.<p>I happened to comment on a photo of an 'iron lung' on the front page saying that I hadn't seen one of those in over 50 years. The next day I saw that I had been banned from some obscure subreddit that I had never even heard of. Seems the subreddit with the photo on the front page was one of the pro-Trump subreddits.<p>When I complained about that, my complaint post was 'disappeared'.<p>If Reddit are going to be so up themselves, I can do without them. So I do.<p>The land of 'free speech' isn't, as far as social media is concerned.