Comments | rpb3000: PayPal, and the slow descent into the choas of order that is the internet.

rpb3000

PayPal, and the slow descent into the choas of order that is the internet.

Nov 21, 2010 21:51

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anonymous November 23 2010, 05:22:08 UTC

I kinda feel that we should keep concepts of money out of the world. Leads to far too many problems.

FTFY

anonymous November 23 2010, 05:25:30 UTC

I don't know one way or the other, but part of me wonders if this is due to the Patriot Act. I once tried, after it was enacted, to get a bank account at Citibank (which didn't have a location in the state), and I literally did not have enough documentation on who I was to open the account. I go to Japan and open an account there (again, with Citibank) as an alien and have no trouble.

The Patriot Act does add a whole bunch of hoops financial institutions have to jump through in the name of preventing money laundering and the funding of terrorism. Maybe this is related?