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xmrk ₿ ⚡️ 2y ago

Punished for running tor relay again, this time by my bank, cannot connect even to their main webpage. But my position could be a bit stronger than in the case of Comcast, because I am their customer. Thinking about filing a complaint with them, although it feels like fighting windmills. Still, at least they have to respond and invent some excuse.

Tried few other Spanish banks - Abanca, BBVA and Santander. All of them let me to login page.

The bank is obsessed with ESG. Running tor relay helps people in Russia and Iran circumvent censorship - does this not belong to S in ESG? Ah, I forgot, the ESG is just a show.

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xmrk ₿ ⚡️ 1y ago

The bank did unblock tor relays, albeit I needed to file a second reclamation after they hadn't responded to the first one. So please don't just give up in similar situation, you can win.

I was preparing another complaint based on GDPR - the bank processes my IP without my consent and without other legitimate reason - I guess "we don't understand tor" is not a legitimate reason. Didn't need to go this way obviously.

I do not enjoy threatening anyone with violence (even indirectly and the violence would be carried out by the state), but we are talking about banks, privileged by the state. Especially in Spain, where you cannot pay more than 1000 euros in cash, so you almost have to use bank. End those privileges, and I don't care whether bank blocks connections from an IP address which contains 13, or any other stupid rule. Well, and the bank should inform in advance: "we consider 13 an unlucky number, we block anything related".

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