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

[Anonymous Coward]

Uh huh, "Objectionable content," that's what he said that some bank manager told him. But stop and consider: would this be any kind of a story unless there were the hint of homophobia around it? No. What is going to promote this guy's site better, "I'm a doofus who won't put up contact information," or "The bank is homophobic!!"

Unless you have any evidence backing up your idle speculation, then you are just being a Troll, despite what some of the Moderators here have so far labeled your comments.

By pointing out a Troll, I am being down-Moderated as a Troll. The Troll post (at this point, is at +4 Insightful!) This, once again, shows an incredible bias, and demonstrates (once again) that many, many people merely Moderate to promote an agenda.

Re:Will we find the real spun in a dumpster

[spun]

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.