Fair Access to Financial Services (OCC-2020-0042-0001) -

[Letora]

I need to know what to write because I am a fucking brainlet. I want to write and support this. What do I write?

Anyone have a copy paste version to send please and thanks

Honestly, just a short paragraph in your own words reiterating how wrong it is that payment processors like Paypal, credit cards, and banks, can arbitrarily/unilaterally/subjectively decide to ban law-abiding people and businesses with differing opinions from using their platforms, basically financially crippling them and in many cases forcing them to be taken down. It suppresses freedom of speech. Say that you support the Fair Access to Financial Services Act of 2020.

Don't copy and paste because spam-posting is likely to get disregarded. Re-read what Null posted at the start and write a short opinion piece in the comments. You don't have to write a lot. Mention that you have personal experience with certain forums/websites/businesses being removed from payment processors without any crimes being committed.

 

[TheSimpShow]

• The minimum capital requirements to run a bank (the rules should be the same as for other corporations, i.e. $1)

But how else are we going to devalue the dollar for endless upward inflation by ruthlessly pressing the fractional reserve button?!

 

[Yaniv’s Hairy Balls]

I left a comment, added in the companies that had been frozen out. Put a little snark in it (all polite tho). Basically said “if you’ve never heard of these entities that’s bc the banking companies have choked off access to financial services and the businesses either can’t grow or they’ve gone u see”. Nothing too out of the way, just trying to make a point no one will read lmao.

 

[Starscreams Cape]

Comment submitted.

 

[Vlinny-kun]

Wrote my essay and sent it in. Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

 

[formershroomeryuser]

Uh, let me think.

That time a brand-new government was created and told the King of England to go huff tea was pretty nice for the citizenry of the colonies. But that almost seems too easy, so let me think of a few more.

Government was responsible for forming the first transcontinental communications system, the Pony Express. It also built the transcontinental railroads. It built the Panama Canal (that had previously been attempted by a private company; it failed). The government funded a transcontinental telegraph system, and later, the Internet.

The government was responsible for surveying, mapping, and building interstate highway systems. It put satellites in orbit that can tell a hand-held device precisely where on earth it is, which enables things like Google Maps to even work at all. Those aren't privately owned satellites; the government put them there, and it invented most of the tech to get them there, too. Communications and transportation as we know them today would not be even remotely close to the same if government had not poured money and resources into them.

Science and engineering would not be the same either. The government sent men to space and either invented or paved the way to the invention of a whole new world of space-age materials and devices. Government programs for defense and wars have also heavily contributed to the fields of science, engineering, even biotech and medicine.

And there are so many other examples I could give. Public education. Public sanitation. Conservation. Occupational health and safety. Cleanup and disposal of millions of tons of hazardous waste that, prior to government regulation, had simply been left by private companies to poison our land, water, and ultimately us.

All of these things were made possible by acts of Congress (more laws), and/or by the government taxing and spending more money (bigger government). The idea that more government is never the solution is categorically wrong and stupid. It's rarely the solution, but sometimes, it is.

Those were all 100% private companies. Government as usual came up with the money to pay for all that with taxes. None of that was the government any more responsible for then a lemonade stand operated by an individual. Permits and taxes and zoning and legal protection. That is it.

Lol@"the government funded the internet." This is one the largest debunked statements of all time. From LAN to WAN the only thing the government "financed" was basically the use of telephone lines to run the internet through.

 

[DNA_JACKED]

I left my comment and my short speech on how financial institutions could use their power to restrict both freedom of speech and freedom of expression, and how such powers are being actively abused against smaller sites and companies. Threw in a little tidbit about "muh minorities" and how the banks being forced to service them equally should also apply to website regardless of content, so long as it is law abiding. Perhaps some government worker obsessed with social stature will read that.

 

[Slowpoke Sonic]

i wrote mine since i have nothing better to do.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Submitted one. Hopefully there are some good results here.

 

[SASSQUATCH]

I said: "Hello! The limit of banking is severely impacting my online community. We are a large network of like minded individuals who just want the right to support what we love. I belive when you limit something that is not illegal, especially when it comes to just supporting a content creator (they are working hard in a digital space!) You're taking away a constitutional right. There are no bans where I'm not allowed to give cash to anyone as a donation for thier art or work, and in an increasingly digital age where online currently almost nessicary, it's very important to keep our rights as American citizens protected. Thanks for your time and I hope you consider my words." I'm not the best but I tried. Strength in numbers hopefully

 

[Overcooked Raccoon]

Submitted it in just now. Here's hoping things become easier for you Null.

 

[Liber Pater]

I sent mine in yesterday, not realizing that the comment period expires at the end of today (Jan 4th) rather than at the beginning. Oh well.

 

[Sheriff of CWCville]

Hbd Null, I may procrastinate but I got mine in just now. hope we can make a difference with this

 

[Mooger Meng]

Went ahead and eleventh hour'd a comment, specifically mentioned that the $100 billion seperator was probably too high to make a difference to the already mega-rich. I'll be pleasantly surprised if this goes through, and more-than-pleasantly if it actually does some good for We the People.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Sent my comments in a few days ago expressing my support and even personally emailed my district's Congressman.

It'll probably do jack shit, but it's better than nothing and at least I did something to try and fight back.

 

[make_it_so]

Sent in a short and sweet comment in support of the regulation, fingers crossed.

 

[muh_moobs]

@muh_moobs You are the dumbest person on the site.


Multinational banking apparatuses do not follow the bottom dollar. As much as you sputter out the word kike when trying to undermine the use of government to improve one's life, you have no fucking clue. The fact you've wasted so much of better people's time arguing with them here is genuinely despicable. Stupid fucking cunt.

If you're concerned about multi-national desert merchants, why do you believe they'll subjugate themselves to the unwashed goyim of the US? Either they get their way through the politicians they control or they'll just withdraw from the US market completely while shutting Americans out of international commerce until they get their way.

They hold all the cards. If they're already flexing their might to close people out of commerce they're willing to expand those practices. I don't see how anyone could possibly think that government will ever work for the benefit of the people after watching what has happened in the last 18 months.

 

[hundredpercent]

withdraw from the US market completely while shutting Americans out of international commerce until they get their way.

That's stupid. Nobody would voluntarily withdraw from the largest market in the world. Banks all over the world follow American banking regulations, because doing otherwise is a death sentence.

 

[muh_moobs]

That's stupid. Nobody would voluntarily withdraw from the largest market in the world. Banks all over the world follow American banking regulations, because doing otherwise is a death sentence.

China is about to eclipse the US as the largest economy. And the US economy isn't larger than the rest of the world combined.

American "supremacy" has been made obsolete by the establishment.

 

[hundredpercent]

China is about to eclipse the US as the largest economy. And the US economy isn't larger than the rest of the world combined.

American "supremacy" has been made obsolete by the establishment.

China does not have a large financial sector, especially not for foreign companies. There's no reason a bank couldn't continue to service U.S. customers while being active abroad.