© Fabian Sommer/dpa via APDemonstrators walk along Bismarckstrasse in Berlin, Sunday Aug. 1, 2021, during a protest against coronavirus restrictions.
It claims that at least eight organisations have been put on a watchlist or have had their accounts stopped, including the protest group Viruswaarheid and evangelist Jaap Dieleman.
The measure is seen as part of the banks' duties to combat extremism and 'dangerous' messaging, claims the NRC. The organisations taking action on the subject reportedly include the ING, Triodos Bank, Rabobank and payment platform Mollie.
However, some banking experts told the NRC that banks can refuse a client but need to properly substantiate any measure to block banking facilities.
Earlier this year, a court ruled that ING needed to give the founder of Viruswaarheid access back to his account for four months.
The bank had stopped the account, citing concerns about payments of €50,000 for a piece of land in Spain, which appeared to have been funded by donations made by the group's supporters. But the court ruled there was no concrete evidence of money laundering or criminal activities, and account holder Willem Engel said the payment was a guaranteed loan that had been repaid.
A spokesman for the Rabobank told DutchNews.nl that it does have a policy on the matter, but treats examples individually. 'It is possible that there would be disruptive consequences for society if people are spreading misinformation but freedom of speech is also important and we look at the policy on a case-by-case basis,' he said.
A spokesman for Triodos said the bank does not discuss individual circumstances, but also makes decisions on a case-by-case basis. 'Beliefs and opinions do not in themselves constitute grounds for rejecting an application,' he added. 'Within the framework of our criteria and legal obligations, we always consider several aspects.'
Comment: The situation is such that, with every piece of data the 'facts' are changing all the time, even politicians and the experimental injection manufacturers give conflicting statistics and advice, and so how can anyone confidently claim to be the arbiter of what is or is not misinformation with regards to the coronavirus and lockdowns?
Although, really, that's giving the situation the benefit of the doubt, because it's clear that what's actually happening is that banks and other institutions, in league with governments, are doing everything they can to tighten the screws on dissenters in order to silence them. This agenda has become blatantly clear by the gradual enforcement of injection IDs which block those who do not suffer the injections from the necessities of life in an attempt to coerce as many as possible into compliance:
- Macron announces vaccine passport restricting access to stores, healthcare, public transit on national holiday: Protests erupt across France
- UK Police Chief: 'Now is really not the time for freedom of speech, right to assembly'
- Scotland's anti-free speech law has passed, making it one of the West's most oppressive countries for speech
- Australia's MILITARY enforcing lockdown, helicopters soar overheard blaring warnings, gov't wants to inject 80% of population before border block lifted
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