Re: Donate money

From	John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Donate money
Date	2024-01-09 00:20 +0100
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David writes:
> The way they would withhold payments as not going to approved entities
> by the powers that be has forced me into believing they are more of an
> information gathering utility disguised as a financial one.  If you
> undertake to act as a medium in a financial transaction, that's what
> you do.

They have to comply with the (vaguely worded) law if they want to stay
in business.  I doubt that they like it any more than we do.

> You don't put through some transactions and not others, simply because
> they are heading to an Assange fund or some other entity not currently
> approved of by American foreign policy preference.

The "know your customer" regulations are by no means a US-only
phenomena.  It's supposed to prevent "money laundering".

-- 
John Hasler 
john@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA

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  Re: Donate money Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-01-08 13:10 +0100
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  Re: Donate money debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-01-08 19:10 +0100
    Re: Donate money gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-01-08 20:40 +0100
      Re: Donate money David <curmudgeon@telaman.net.au> - 2024-01-08 21:40 +0100
        Re: Donate money John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-01-09 00:20 +0100
          Re: Donate money David <curmudgeon@telaman.net.au> - 2024-01-09 02:40 +0100
            Re: Donate money John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-01-09 02:50 +0100
              Re: Donate money David <curmudgeon@telaman.net.au> - 2024-01-09 03:40 +0100
                Re: Donate money Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-01-09 04:10 +0100
            Re: Donate money Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-01-09 19:00 +0100
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              Re: Donate money David <curmudgeon@telaman.net.au> - 2024-01-09 19:20 +0100
          Re: Donate money gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-01-09 04:10 +0100

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