💬 Opinion 1d ago · Elizabeth Nolan Brown

Bankers Scouring Porn Sites. Payment Processors Punishing Journalists. Here's How 'Big Finance' Is Chilling Speech

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Bankers Scouring Porn Sites. Payment Processors Punishing Journalists. Here's How 'Big Finance' Is Chilling Speech
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Banks are scouring porn platforms in order to flag objectionable words and scenes. Payment processors are deciding what constitutes misinformation about war. And a credit union could decide whether your donation to a cannabis advocacy group can go through.
We're now deep into the era of suppressing speech through financial institutions.

Rainey Reitman got an early introduction to this phenomenon while working to help free whistleblower Chelsea Manning. The campaign she was working on was run th

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