‘Dystopian approach’: SEC gives blessing to MasterCard’s idea of cutting off customers with right-wing views
Saturday, May 04, 2019 by: News Editors
(
Natural News)
Blocking payments to individuals or groups by financial service firms
impedes freedom of speech in a free society, journalist Ben Swann has
told RT, following reports that MasterCard is allegedly on course to
censor the far-right.
(Article republished from
RT.com)
The New York-based firm is
reportedly being forced by left-leaning liberal activists to set up an internal
“human rights committee” that would monitor payments to
“white supremacist groups and anti-Islam activists.”
“The problem is that everyone has their own views and, in a free
society, the idea of a free society is that you are free to have your
belief systems, as long as you’re not harming anyone else physically,” Swann told RT America.
“But your belief system belongs to you and you have the right be wrong. White supremacists have the right to be wrong.”
MasterCard is not the only holder of purse-strings that is mulling
the selective banning of individuals from their services and funds.
Patreon and PayPal have previously barred individuals from receiving
payments using their platforms, due to their extreme views.
But unlike crowdfunding platforms, being cut off from one of the
leading American multinational financial services corporations will,
most likely, have a much greater impact on the financial stability of an
individual or a group, especially after the US Securities and Exchange
Commission reportedly blessed MasterCard’s undertaking. By doing this,
Swann believes the government granted
“big corporations the ability to control what voices are heard.”
The issue with such an approach, the investigative journalist argues,
would lead to a wider crackdown on financial payments to anyone who the
government would see as unfavorable.
“The fact that the SEC has given a green light to this
essentially says the SEC supports the idea of censoring these groups in
order to freeze out essentially anyone you don’t agree with,” the journalist said.
“It is such a dystopian 1984 world view and yet we’re living through it right now,” the journalist observed.
Watch the entire interview.
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