The Canary has been debanked by Lloyds. Despite banking with them for almost a decade they are currently withholding a substantial amount of our money. We are left with barely any funds.
We do know that multiple other politically engaged people have suffered similar actions by other banks in recent times. It is not lost on us that powerful banks are able to restrict the financial activity of anti-Zionist and pro-Palestine organisations and individuals. Whilst we do not currently know the reasons behind our debanking, we cannot afford to be naive about this.
It is an outrage that the Canary has been unceremoniously dropped into financial instability with no notice or explanation from Lloyds.
20 Comments
zabadoh@ani.social · 13 pts · 51d
Strong left bias, but "mostly factual" rating from mbfc
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 51d
Mbfc also calls hasbara rags like Times of Israel "left leaning and mostly factual".
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 51d
Guess that's middle of the lane for most people then.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · -4 pts · 51d
Nah, it has been quite dishonest at times
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 51d
I was referring to the 'strong left bias' and MBFC's own right slant.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 51d
The Canary very much has a strong left bias
There's nothing wrong with having a left wing bias or being left wing, it's a bit silly to try and act as if having opinions is a bad thing
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 51d
I'm not familiar with them. I'm not making any comment about the Canary, only MBFC.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 51d
Yeah. You know the difference between 'mostly' and 'always' does allow for some 'at times' exceptions, eight?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 51d
Yes
Zombie@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 51d
MBFC is almost entirely created by one person (6 named on site, but 1 is by far the controlling authority).
Nobody is without bias, but a large organisation of many varying views can temper it to a tolerable amount. To say that a near one man operation can act without bias though is ridiculous.
To rely on MBFC to determine the credibility of a news source is like outsourcing your critical thinking to somebody else. They're a hack organisation as much as the organisations they claim to call out.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · -6 pts · 51d
The Canary, while it doesn't outright lie, creates strange theories and interpretations surrounding things. It's definitely left biased.
tenebrisnox@feddit.uk · 12 pts · 51d
Didn't Farage make a great deal about this sort of thing happening to him?
OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml · 29 pts · 51d
Yeah, but that was when he was dropped by a high net-worth bank for being insufficiently high net-worth.
He just pretended he was being cancelled.
Dave8008@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 51d
Not the first attack on The Canary from the usual suspects.
"One of its first targets was The Canary, a pro-Corbyn website that was achieving 8.5 million hits a month.
Working closely with the anti-Corbyn Jewish Labour Movement, the book says McSweeney secretly recruited Countdown co-presenter Rachel Riley to front a campaign targeting The Canary’s advertisers with claims the outlet was antisemitic.
The Canary was later cleared by the independent regulator Impress (a fact Pogrund and Maguire don’t mention), but the damage was done. The Canary “went down from 22 staff to one member of staff within a few months of us targeting it,” SFFN crowed.
“Bye bye Birdie!!!” tweeted Rachel Riley."
https://www.declassifieduk.org/morgan-mcsweeney-plot-without-precedent-in-labour-history/
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 51d
London’s banks are some of the oldest evil organisations going. A building society would likely be safer as then the members get to vote on whether to debank you.
zabadoh@ani.social · 5 pts · 51d
Causes of de-banking in the UK:
Reasons for giving no notice, from the same article:
mannycalavera@feddit.uk · -1 pts · 51d
Yup deffo AML check. Next they'll complain that they asked why their funds have been withheld but weren't given an answer IT MUST BE A CONSPIRACY! No, love, it's AML laws.
flamingos@feddit.uk · -4 pts · 51d
You don't understand, Lloyd's decision was clearly a direct order from our ZOG. Don't you know, everything is connected.
RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 51d
bft
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · -12 pts · 51d
Would have the canary stood with Nigel Farage whenever this happened to him?