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Citibank Cancels Bank Account of Objectionable Blogger

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the there's-gotta-be-more-to-this dept.

Keith found this story about Citibank blocking a website's bank account after deciding that the site's blog contained questionable content. I guess it's up to a bank to decide whom to do business with, but this is pretty crazy.

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  1. Re:Non-story by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bank does something inexplicable and/or dumb. Film at 11. They already unblocked the account and are doing a "review" of the site apparently. This will probably amount to nothing and they'll simply leave the account open. Wake me if something interesting happens.

    Wake you? No, I think we would rather draw a mustache on your face and put your hand in a bowl of warm water.

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    - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
  2. Poor Jeph Jacques by Arancaytar · · Score: 4, Funny

    contained questionable content

    What's wrong with being a webcartoonist?

    1. Re:Poor Jeph Jacques by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Have you ever met Randy Milholland? You'd never ask that question again.

  3. Couldn't they just have modded them "-1 Troll"? by Dr_Art · · Score: 3, Funny

    Couldn't they just have modded them "-1 Troll"? :-)

  4. Re:Because it's a gay site? Or is it because... by phud · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. Not because I agree with you, but because you spelled "definitely" correctly.

  5. Re:What a shock by jellomizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only I knew If I could make some truthful disparaging blogs about Citibank and all the trouble I had they would have canceled my mortgage.

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  6. Re:Because it's a gay site? Or is it because... by H0p313ss · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actual evidence need not apply.

    All to often the act of dragging reality, kicking and screaming, into any online discussion is treated as sinful as actually paying for media content or liking a Microsoft product.

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  7. Re:Because it's a gay site? Or is it because... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    i see what you did their ...

  8. Don't use credit-based banks. Ever! by Hurricane78 · · Score: 4, Funny

    These are my rules of a bank that I will not have business with:

    • Lends your money to others. (Especially while leaving the risk with you!)
    • Works with interest.
    • Works with imaginary money. (Money that is not based on a physical resource like gold.)

    These are all highly immoral and in my eyes illegal concepts.

    Which is why I will found my own gold/silver-based currency and bank for my big game project, and legally allow using it outside of the game. (But will disallow any of the above behaviors.)

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    Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.