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Reason Suggests DoJ Closing Porn Stars' Bank Accounts

Posted by timothy on from the moral-crisis dept.

MouseTheLuckyDog (2752443) writes "In a recent story on reason.com it was reported that the DoJ is closing down the bank accounts of porn stars. Not knowing the site I googled around and found another site, the Guardian. The story does not end there. It turns out that this is part of a larger scheme (ironically) called Operation Choke Point. Also reported in a Washington Post article that downplays the practice. According to Cryptocoin news. There are thirty industries the DoJ is now targeteting: Ammunition Sales; Cable Box De-scramblers; Coin Dealers; Credit Card Schemes; Credit Repair Services; Dating Services; Debt Consolidation Scams; Drug Paraphernalia; Escort Services; Firearms Sales; Fireworks Sales; Get Rich Products; Government Grants; Home-Based Charities; Life-Time Guarantees; Life-Time Memberships; Lottery Sales; Mailing Lists/Personal Info; Money Transfer Networks; On-line Gambling; PayDay Loans; Pharmaceutical Sales; Ponzi Schemes; Pornography; Pyramid-Type Sales; Racist Materials; Surveillance Equipment; Telemarketing; Tobacco Sales; and Travel Clubs. But more can be added. (I notice alcohol sales is not on the list)." The Reason article stops short of saying that Choke Point is proven to be the reason for the account closures, but it seems very plausible.

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  1. Nope, just "Things Poor People Like" by TrollstonButterbeans · · Score: 1, Troll

    Porn, lottery tickets, credit repair services, payday lenders.

    Here is how the day for a typical poor person works:

    1) Wake up, watch some porn
    2) Go get a PayDay loan
    3) Go buy some lottery tickets
    4) Go to the credit repair service after not winning lottery
    5)Sign up for some pyramid schemes
    6) Watch some descrambled cable TV from neighbors cable connection
    7) Party by doing some fireworks while smoking some tobacco and a bit of shooting some guns

    These businesses really do prey on poor people. On one hand, you might think targeting these industries might be ineffective because people with really bad common sense are hard to stop from self-destructive activities.

    Why aren't they just scanning driver's licenses as a requirement of buying lottery tickets and then compiling a list of super-habitual "blow all their money types".

    These industries are organized crime, engaging in fraud/deceit and wrecking lives and run by criminals, and are run by the mafia types.

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  2. +5 Insightful by Fwipp · · Score: 0, Troll

    You heard it here first: Sex workers not being able to keep their money in a bank is worse than the Holocaust.

    This fucking website, man.

    1. Re:+5 Insightful by Raenex · · Score: 1, Troll

      One of the first steps on the way to the holocaust was to deny Jews and other undesirables the right to a bank account.

      Maybe so, but remember the original poster's claim:

      "How the hell are you people still not realizing you're living in a situation worse than Nazi Germany?"

      Which is just fucking ridiculous, no matter how you slice it.