Re:MasterCard to stop processing payments on Pornhub, cites ...
by cathyreisenwitz on Thursday December 10, 2020 @04:44PM
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Actually I want large banks investigated and prosecuted the way small banks are. Which isn't the case. HSBC laundered billions for terrorists and human traffickers with zero DOJ involovment despite whistleblowers tipping them off. But Charlie Shrem didn't report his bitcoin sale and went to prison. If you think these laws make banking fairer I've got a bridge to sell you.
Re:MasterCard to stop processing payments on Pornhub, cites ...
by colechristensen on Thursday December 10, 2020 @04:51PM
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https://www.corp-research.org/HSBC
Here are billions in fines for HSBC. You can say financial regulators aren’t doing enough, but you can’t say they’re doing nothing.
Where did I say anything about fairness?
There is a problem where prosecutors are rated by success and they only take slam dunk cases. That problem really has nothing to do with the laws themselves,
Re:MasterCard to stop processing payments on Pornhub, cites ...
by standardUser on Thursday December 10, 2020 @05:00PM
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"That problem really has nothing to do with the laws themselves"
The fact that vast swaths of victimless, consensual activity is criminalized is exactly the problem. When enough laws exist to make enforcement an impossibility, selective enforcement becomes the law.
Re:MasterCard to stop processing payments on Pornhub, cites ...
by colechristensen on Thursday December 10, 2020 @05:15PM
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What exactly are the victimless consentual activities that money laundering laws punish?
Re:MasterCard to stop processing payments on Pornhub, cites ...
by standardUser on Thursday December 10, 2020 @05:24PM
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Production and distribution of illicit drugs.
You have a lot of claims there, do you have sources?
AML regulations do plenty, and they start with banks checking for sketchy transactions and not executing them. You can also look up several cases of very large penalties for breaking these laws. The US crushed a couple of Swiss banks a few years back, the longest operating bank which had been going for hundreds of years was effectively shut down by money laundering judgements.
It seems you want to have small financial businesses not be responsible for people using their services to commit crimes... well too bad, I say. You don't get a free pass to aid and abet crime because you're small. Like many things, the business of facilitating financial transactions isn't just keeping a ledger and presenting a nice interface to it... the real meat of the business is accurately keeping transactions on par with regulation and resolving disputes. The obvious part of the business is the easy part, the hard part is what you get paid for.