KYC is the real terror. Alas, very few understand the importance of the weaponisation of the financial system / payment systems. I have a big list of similar events here.

On the weaponisation of the financial system

I korsningen av finans, krypto och samhälle

This is awesome, thank you for sharing!

That's why we #Bitcoin

I can put the source markdown file under a Creative Commons or MIT license if people are interested to build on it

I have read that such things happen, but this specific letter from the bank says nothing about it. Normally Deutsche Bank are so unscrupulous that they don’t care who has an account with them, from a serious criminal to an activist, as long as the account is well-funded. If this post is correct, pressure must be big..

Shared this !

Valuable lesson for a human rights activist. Ain’t it? Be your own bank. Use #soundMoney. Defund the fuckers.

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Does anyone know if he has a lightning wallet? or a Nostr account?

"You disagree with us so you must be punished" - Every Tyrant Ever

In principle I agree with you, but that's not what I would take away from this news. "Certain" political opinions now imply de facto 'un-banking'. The only way out of this is Bitcoin.

That's a bullshit story. In Germany eveyone - by law - has the right to a checkings account, even when job- or homeless and banks have no leeway. We don't know what actually happened - he might have transferred money to a sanctioned entity or overdraft his account to many times or didn't pay his bills. It's just his claim of censorship by the bank. Data protection and privacy laws are pretty strong in Germany, why would a bank care about his political views and where would they get the information to it? Also, where is proof of his other claim? He provides a photo of a letter to the termination of his contract so why not provide the proof to his other claim? It's just to support his bs story and to make his case appear stronger. Seems all like artifical outrage. Register with Revolut and stop whining.

Interesting. Deutsche Bank opened accounts with Epstein after he had already been convicted of sex crimes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/05/18/how-deutsche-bank-was-connected-to-jeffrey-epstein-and-what-its-75-million-payout-to-survivors-could-mean-for-other-banks/

I quickly took a look at this and someone who was actively disagreeing with Safa said that the letter doesn't give a specific reason and that they don't have to. Do you have a link to anything supporting that specific institutions have to maintain your account or is it just that you have a general right to *an* account but not necessarily with this institution (i.e. you can't be entirely excluded from banking)?

The default answer is no

Well the mark of the beast won't work if you can just open another account somewhere else now will it? These people play with your fears and ancient ideas to perfect their balance of power...