Pressure from free-speech law firm forces Chase to eliminate language that allowed it debank conservatives
Maybe slightly less eager, but only slightly less
Bring a gun to a knife fight: For reasons that appear related to pressure from the conservative free-speech law firm the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), JPMorgan Chase has eliminated language in its payment services policy statement that allowed it to cancel conservative clients merely because it disliked those clients’ politics.
JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the U.S., rolled back its WePay service that required merchants to refrain from accepting payments or using the service for activities related to “social risk issues,” which the bank defined as anything “subject to allegation and impacts related to hate groups, systemic racism, sexual harassment and corporate culture.”
The language was removed from the company’s WePay terms of service, the Alliance for Defending Freedom (ADF) discovered this month.
For the past three years ADF has issued what it calls its Viewpoint Diversity Score Business Index, designed to “measure corporate respect for free speech and religious freedom across 43 performance indicators.” Each year it consults with the 85 corporations on its list in an attempt to get them to eliminate policies that encourage the debanking of conservative individuals or organizations. In the case of Chase, a sustained effort over two years eventually caused the company to remove that language.
In 2022, Chase canceled the account of former U.S. Ambassador Sam Brownback’s National Committee for Religious Freedom without explanation. The cancelation and Chase’s two denials of payment processing services to conservative groups Defense of Liberty and Arkansas Family Council in 2021 are part of a rising trend of apparent politicized de-banking by Chase and other major banks like Bank of America. Last year, 19 state attorneys general and 14 state financial officers sent letters calling on Chase to provide transparency by participating in the survey portion of the Business Index, while financial advisor David Bahnsen filed a shareholder resolution urging Chase to do the same.
In 2022 and 2023, Chase representatives avoided engaging with ADF on the Business Index. By the end of 2023, the bank had quietly dropped its payment processor WePay’s “social risk” policy that included subjective terms like “hate” and “intolerance” and allowed bank employees to cancel or punish customers based on their viewpoints.
ADF still considers Chase’s ranking on its index to be very low (only 9% out of a possible 100%). Worse, it appears to be somewhat typical for the companies on ADF’s index. “Overall, 76% of scored companies, including all 21 digital service providers from Amazon to Zoom have vague or subjective terms of service that threaten their customers with cancelation or punishment.”
Even so, Chase’s policy change is a step forward.
1792 Exchange: Exposing blacklisting in
corporate America
ADF’s list, along with the 1792 Exchange’s Corporate Bias Ratings, are very useful tools for anyone interested in finding a freedom loving bank. Why put your money in a bank that likes to blacklist people because of their opinions? Not only do such fascists not deserve support, they clearly aren’t putting your financial interests first.
In addition, if you need legal help when one of these banks debanks you, this list, Where to get legal help if you have been illegally blacklisted, is equally useful. Though progress has been made, I guarantee that there are many people who work for these large corporations who remain quite eager to illegally blacklist people. When they do it to you, the law firms on that list are there to help you fight back, and win.
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Maybe slightly less eager, but only slightly less
Bring a gun to a knife fight: For reasons that appear related to pressure from the conservative free-speech law firm the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), JPMorgan Chase has eliminated language in its payment services policy statement that allowed it to cancel conservative clients merely because it disliked those clients’ politics.
JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the U.S., rolled back its WePay service that required merchants to refrain from accepting payments or using the service for activities related to “social risk issues,” which the bank defined as anything “subject to allegation and impacts related to hate groups, systemic racism, sexual harassment and corporate culture.”
The language was removed from the company’s WePay terms of service, the Alliance for Defending Freedom (ADF) discovered this month.
For the past three years ADF has issued what it calls its Viewpoint Diversity Score Business Index, designed to “measure corporate respect for free speech and religious freedom across 43 performance indicators.” Each year it consults with the 85 corporations on its list in an attempt to get them to eliminate policies that encourage the debanking of conservative individuals or organizations. In the case of Chase, a sustained effort over two years eventually caused the company to remove that language.
In 2022, Chase canceled the account of former U.S. Ambassador Sam Brownback’s National Committee for Religious Freedom without explanation. The cancelation and Chase’s two denials of payment processing services to conservative groups Defense of Liberty and Arkansas Family Council in 2021 are part of a rising trend of apparent politicized de-banking by Chase and other major banks like Bank of America. Last year, 19 state attorneys general and 14 state financial officers sent letters calling on Chase to provide transparency by participating in the survey portion of the Business Index, while financial advisor David Bahnsen filed a shareholder resolution urging Chase to do the same.
In 2022 and 2023, Chase representatives avoided engaging with ADF on the Business Index. By the end of 2023, the bank had quietly dropped its payment processor WePay’s “social risk” policy that included subjective terms like “hate” and “intolerance” and allowed bank employees to cancel or punish customers based on their viewpoints.
ADF still considers Chase’s ranking on its index to be very low (only 9% out of a possible 100%). Worse, it appears to be somewhat typical for the companies on ADF’s index. “Overall, 76% of scored companies, including all 21 digital service providers from Amazon to Zoom have vague or subjective terms of service that threaten their customers with cancelation or punishment.”
Even so, Chase’s policy change is a step forward.
1792 Exchange: Exposing blacklisting in
corporate America
ADF’s list, along with the 1792 Exchange’s Corporate Bias Ratings, are very useful tools for anyone interested in finding a freedom loving bank. Why put your money in a bank that likes to blacklist people because of their opinions? Not only do such fascists not deserve support, they clearly aren’t putting your financial interests first.
In addition, if you need legal help when one of these banks debanks you, this list, Where to get legal help if you have been illegally blacklisted, is equally useful. Though progress has been made, I guarantee that there are many people who work for these large corporations who remain quite eager to illegally blacklist people. When they do it to you, the law firms on that list are there to help you fight back, and win.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
Behind The Black
c/o Robert Zimmerman
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Cortaro, AZ 85652
You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage or shown in the menu above.
JPMorgan Case paid almost $0.3 billion to epstein victims. “JPMorgan Chase will not admit liability in the case, but upon the settlement’s approval the bank will put out a statement regretting its association with Epstein, David Boies, one of the victims’ attorneys, told CNN.”
Yeah, they regret he got caught and their association with the flow of underage girls stopped. We’re just paying because what’s $290 million? Evil, nothing more nothing less.
It’s no coincidence that debanking, censorship, sex trafficking of children, lawfare, tyranny, etc. all line up with the leftists.
Ditty, ditto, sorry he got caught.
Damn video cameras.