Citibank Cancels Bank Account of Objectionable Blogger

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.

Comments

Re:Non-story

[spun]

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.

Poor Jeph Jacques

[Arancaytar]

contained questionable content

What's wrong with being a webcartoonist?

Re:Because it's a gay site? Or is it because...

[phud]

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

Don't use credit-based banks. Ever!

[Hurricane78]

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.)