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.
This isn't a blog. It is a large, well financed gay dating site who's CEO happens to be blogging about his bank's supposed issues with his site's 'objectionable content' a week before the site goes live.
No tangents here, just a dearth of complete information. You see, this fellow has been pimping this story all over the place, and I'd read it a few hours before, linked from a different site. I looked into the fabulis site and found out what it is, and that it is about to go live, and THAT is what made me suspicious. The timing is just a little too pat.
Again, it is not whether the bank knows how to contact this guy. He is about to open a very large online dating site, but there is no real live address or telephone number on the site. The bank is just worried about charge-backs.
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