|
Given that both explicitly mention payday lenders, I would say not, they're just adding their weight to the current propaganda effort. The EFF's motive would seem to be obvious; after talking about the porn star situation, they note an online case: "This is particularly troubling because “pornography” itself is subject to interpretation. While the crackdown currently affects mainstream, prominent performers, it could quickly turn into a bank account ban for radical and feminist porn. We’ve seen examples of this in the past. For instance, Cindy Gallup, who hopes to revolutionize pornography and cultural acceptance of human sexuality through her website MakeLoveNotPorn.com, struggled to find any bank that would do business with her in the United States. Artists of all stripes should be concerned about this unnecessary encroachment on free expression." And then they immediately segue to Operation Check Point with its less sympathetic victims. Reason is the the leasing popular libertarian journal of opinion, they have no reason (sorry) whatsoever not to defend payday loan companies and other free market entities our betters frown upon. Their second paragraph jumps right to Operation Check Point and lists these as "undesirable" lines of business it's suspected as attacking, "payday lenders, ammunition sales, dating services, purveyors of drug paraphernalia, and online gambling sites", every one of which they unquestionably defend as a class. Leading off with payday lenders is telling, I'd say. |