More than 800 Canadian citizens have had their bank accounts shut down since 2018, including hundreds who participated in the pivotal trucker protests against coronavirus policies in 2022, known as the Freedom Convoy.
Barclays Bank, a major retail bank in the United Kingdom, has settled a lawsuit brought by the UK-based Christian ministry the Core Issues Trust over the former’s decision to suddenly suspend its banking services in 2020.
Oklahoma State Treasurer Todd Russ (R) announced on Wednesday that the Sooner State is blacklisting 13 financial institutions deemed to be boycotting the energy industry within the state.
General Mills and Audi recently stated that they are pausing advertising on Twitter following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the platform. Musk responded to advertisers in general stopping their ad buys, saying the company has a “massive drop in revenue,” adding that he feels the drop is “Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.”
Bank of America recently shut down a new account associated created for the In the Litter Bos podcast hosted by Jewels Jones and conservative pundit and best-selling author “Catturd.” Jones described the situation as the left exerting control through any means necessary: “They are going to control you at any means or any methods that they possibly can. They’re going to exert their control over you.”
In a quickly-reversed policy move, the web’s leading payments processor, PayPal, announced it would deduct $2,500 from users who violates its acceptable use policy, which includes bans on spreading “misinformation,” “hate,” or anything else the company deemed “unfit for publication.”
British Members of Parliament for the governing Conservative Party are considering an amendment to internet regulations that would prohibit payment processors like PayPal from blacklisting political campaigners, following the tech giant’s decision to withdraw service from the Free Speech Union (FSU), the anti-cancel culture organization founded by columnist and author Toby Young.
Sydney Watson, co-host of You Are Here on the conservative streaming service BlazeTV, was banned from Patreon earlier this week, the second major conservative blacklisted by the funding platform on the same day.
Binance.com, the world’s largest centralized cryptocurrency exchange, has rejected calls from the Ukrainian government to blacklist Russian users, saying it would “fly in the face” of the pro-freedom values of cryptocurrency to stop ordinary users from accessing the service.
Free speech social media network Gab has announced the launch of a “Parallel Economy Fund” to back tech startups and other ventures that reject the surveillance economy and leftist values of the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe.
Gab.com, the free speech-friendly social network founded in 2016 in response to rising censorship on Twitter, has launched its own payment processing service that it says will not discriminate based on politics or vaccination status.
The world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies, which is often presented as a censorship-free zone by its advocates, is currently in the midst of a censorship controversy surrounding OpenSea.io and Rarible.com, two leading marketplaces for Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Both have banned political cartoonist Stonetess and his popular “Flurks” NFTs.
WePay, an online payment processor owned by the largest bank in the U.S., JPMorgan Chase, forced the cancellation of an event featuring Donald Trump Jr. in Missouri after it blacklisted the conservative organization hosting it — a decision the financial giant later said was a mistake.
Google and its video-sharing platform YouTube announced this week that they will now prohibit the monetization of accounts that post videos and content that is skeptical of manmade climate change.
A new Ethereum-based platform, Let’sGo Finance, says it aims to solve the problem of financial blacklisting by using “staking,” a new cryptocurrency-based method of investing and wealth creation, to solve the problem of financial censorship.
A former Republican-appointed judge in California protected Patreon, known for financially blacklisting its customers, from a lawsuit brought by one of the first prominent users banned from the platform, Lauren Southern, falsely branding the documentary filmmaker “alt right” in the process.
Internet payment processor PayPal, notorious for its financial blacklisting policies, is reportedly purchasing the Japanese startup firm Paidy, which allows customers to buy items and pay for them at a later date.
Richard Tice alleged that political pressure — possibly from the government — was behind the “unprecedented” debanking of Reform UK.
Nigel Farage’s former Brexit Party, which has been rebranded after the departure from the EU as the Reform Party, had its bank account closed.
David Sacks, the founding COO and product leader of PayPal, slammed his former company over its announcement that it would partner with the far-left Anti Defamation League to monitor payments to alleged right-wing extremists, and that it would share the data with law enforcement.
The Republican Party understands that it needs to do something about Big Tech censorship. But a new, even more totalitarian threat looms on the horizon — the politically motivated control, surveillance, and suppression of financial transactions.
After years of censoring conservatives without admitting to political bias, PayPal appears to have formally abandoned political neutrality, entering into a partnership with the far-left Anti Defamation League (ADL) and law enforcement to track and suppress the activities of the alleged far right.
PayPal, the online payment processing giant, has announced it will work with the far-left Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to collect information on and cut off financial flows to so-called extremists, and that it will share the data it gathers with law enforcement, policymakers, and the rest of the financial industry.
Wells Fargo, one of the largest retail banks in the United States, has shut down the bank account of Lauren Witzke, who ran as the Republican party candidate for U.S. Senate in the state of Delaware last year.
Canadian conservative media website Rebel News has reportedly been blacklisted by PayPal, the web’s leading payment processor, another incident in a growing trend of financial blacklisting of conservatives.
Republican politician and activist Laura Loomer, who ran for Congress in Florida in 2020 and has filed to do so again in 2022, has reportedly been banned from the payment processing platform Stripe.
The establishment media continues to publish a slow but unrelenting stream of negative stories about Substack, the subscription newsletter-blogging service that has drawn a number of prominent writers and journalists, including Glenn Greenwald, Matthew Yglesias, and Andrew Sullivan, away from traditional publications.
Online payment processing service Stripe has reportedly cut all ties with President Trump’s campaign and shut down the campaign’s payment processing services. This prevents the Trump campaign from accepting donations by credit card.
“Sex workers” are the real victims of Pornhub’s forced decision to delete 10 million videos of pornography, rape, abuse, and private sex, according to an article posted by the progressive editors at Salon.com.
The financial blacklisting of businesses and individuals for political reasons has increased dramatically over the past half-decade, but a new rule from the Office of Comptroller of the Currency may be about to change that.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is sounding the alarm over a proposed regulation from the Department of the Treasury that would clamp down on the use of independent cryptocurrency wallets and potentially strengthen financial censorship.
Corporate elites, spurred on by far-left activists, are punishing Facebook for not doing enough to censor its platform, and have deployed a massive advertising boycott against the platform to force its cooperation.
Earlier today, NBC reported that Google confirmed it financially blacklisted two sites known for criticism of the left: conservative commentary site the Federalist and alternative news site ZeroHedge. Following its publication, NBC amended its article to state that the Federalist has been “warned” by Google of imminent blacklisting from its Google Ads service due to “policy violations” in its comments section. ZeroHedge is also working with Google to resolve its blacklisting, which is also based on its comments section.
PayPal, which has banned some prominent conservative figures from its platform, has found a new group of undesirables to blacklist — porn stars.
Conservative street artist Sabo has been banned from PayPal, which will withhold funds from him for six months, according to a post on the artist’s Facebook page. The artist claimed in an email to Breitbart News that Etsy has also blacklisted his online store from its platform.
Bank of America, the second largest U.S. bank, is cutting ties to companies that run ICE detention centers and prisons
A coalition of far-left political activist organizations known for peddling smears about conservatives held a protest at Mastercard’s annual general meeting (AGM) today, aiming to pressure the international credit card giant to financially blacklist wider sections of the political right. The groups’ proposal to form a “human rights committee” did not sway shareholders, who voted the measure down.
During a recent conference, the CEO of Bank of America expressed the company’s desire to transition to a “cashless society.”
In answer to a question from a shareholder activist, Jamie Dimon said his bank was not debanking conservatives for their politics.
Left-wing activists have forced Mastercard to hold a shareholder vote on the creation of a “human rights committee” that would monitor payments to the “far right,” with a view to cut off disfavored individuals and political groups from receiving money from supporters.
