Bright sparks in DHS have already discovered that there's a much more interesting application of this: not waiting until someone actually commits a crime, but does something you wish was a crime, but isn't yet.
This is flying entirely under the radar of the mainstream, but I've been tracking stories of people in the adult industries – not necessarily sex workers doing illegal things, but people performing in or selling legal porn, e.g. or even social networking that allows sexually explicit content – who have had their access to credit card processing and banking shut off. Dreamwidth, itself, had this problem, because it refuses to censor fanfic.
The extent to which this has been going on is truly shocking. Nobody much cares because it's just perverts and whores.
I am talking about the USDHS secretly pressuring credit card processors and banks to drop customers, so the customers don't necessarily even know why their accounts were terminated. If the US DHS is doing this to the alt-right, that is interesting news and pretty fucking surprising given who the goddamned president is.
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This is flying entirely under the radar of the mainstream, but I've been tracking stories of people in the adult industries – not necessarily sex workers doing illegal things, but people performing in or selling legal porn, e.g. or even social networking that allows sexually explicit content – who have had their access to credit card processing and banking shut off. Dreamwidth, itself, had this problem, because it refuses to censor fanfic.
The extent to which this has been going on is truly shocking. Nobody much cares because it's just perverts and whores.
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Cite please.
Sorry to be a hardass, but five minutes of googling reveals that the Daily Stormer was having no obvious trouble getting credit card processing services as of April, because there was a kerfluffle that their credit card contributors might be revealed in subpoena.
I am talking about the USDHS secretly pressuring credit card processors and banks to drop customers, so the customers don't necessarily even know why their accounts were terminated. If the US DHS is doing this to the alt-right, that is interesting news and pretty fucking surprising given who the goddamned president is.
So can you back that up?