According to the sources in the Wikipedia article, in the US at least, the term de-banking wasn't even in popular use until some right-wing nutjobs started claiming that the government was using it to shut down conservative "tech" companies, and then latched onto by people like Joe Rogan and Elon Musk to scam people into replacing their bank accounts with crypto currency.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/debanking-what-is-meaning-crypto-musk-rogan-andreessen-rcna182597

Holy shit.

To think I was envious of America when I was young.

Do you have a source for ANY of this drivel?

I was homeless for years, and have worked with homeless addicts for the last 10 years. Never in my life have I heard of these things happening for the reasons you give. Hell even to this day I don’t update a bank with my new address.

Could you provide a reliable source for more information about this actually happening to real people en masse? I have no doubt it’s happened to someone somewhere, but would be surprised if this was a real problem and I wasn’t aware.

For all other Europeans out there, avoiding this situation is another thing the EU did for us.

For the Americans, write to your representatives demanding the same rights.

Excluding people from having a bank account in 2025 is basically condemning them to ostracism even without sending them to concentration camps.

Sharing info about de-banking is cool but lets try to keep the FUD out of it. What the so-called "ENDING CRIME AND DISORDER ON AMERICA’S STREETS" order says regarding this seems mostly contained in Sec. 3, which basically threatens to pull housing and urban development funds from states that don't meet the administrations crazy rules. . I also see nothing to validate your claim that folks with a mental health diagnosis need three addresses (two back-up addresses implies the existence of a third main address).

I came into this thread thinking that the term de-banking was something like de-google and I was eager to find some opensource service tô get rid of the dependency of banks all together.

Boy was I wrong. /s

Good advice though!

Back when I vandwelled, I was able to set up a "declaration of domicile" so my legal address was at a mail forwarding center. You can have mail forwarded to a local post office box, or to a different address (if you're crashing at a friend's house or something.)

It's a useful option when you have to move around a lot, since if you move you don't have to change your address - just change where your mail gets forwarded to.

It does require paying for a PO Box, but IMO it's worth it.

Though I recommend actually knowing something about the town or city of the forwarding center you use. I once had a job interviewer be from the same town as the one on my license, and had to bullshit as if I actually knew the place (and didn't merely drive through it on a freeway a couple times.)

Certain addresses get flagged in bank and verification systems over time that are shared addresses among many people. Places where someone can get mail without a permanent legal address is one example. Shelters, general delivery at the post office, etc. So much of the concept of your identity is tied to your legal address. Courts can use this too and claim they can't find someone then issue default judgements against them. Meanwhile, so many places are heavily monitored because they have turned into police states, it is not usually in question for the goverment who someone is and where they are located. The post office should provide long term PO boxes for unhoused people for free and these should be accepted as legal addresses. But often, you'll find a PO Box isnt accepted.

This is 100% going to be used against trans people, especially the mental illness and danger parts (remember all the cross dressing is pedophilia stuff that republicans were pushing)

I hope for the safety of all LGBTQ people in the US right now, especially the trans people. You all deserve to live unbothered, I wish it were that easy.

I feel like I'm becoming jaded because any time I hear about some new shit that hurts poor people in this country I find myself wondering how many of these people voted for Trump in the first place. I get being desperate and feeling like some kind of change is needed... The first time. But we had a chance to see it was all bluster and bullshit already and still voted for this government. I know it's a bad mindset but a lot of this stuff is hurting groups of people where the majority voted for Trump and I'm having trouble feeling sorry for them.

Disappointing but not surprising that the chosen solution to increasing swaths of the population no longer being supported by our economy is concentration camps. I honestly don't think it's that far fetched that the endgame here is they literally kill us all while acting like it's our own fault, and the America of the future is just robots and genetic clones of billionaires.

Damn! Yall really are fucked. I really do feel for you. Hope this shit doesn't catch

this entire thread is filled with drumpf apologists and sanewashers

Congrats lemmy, you lost the war with fascism through inattention and allowed yourself to be co-opted

EVEN THOUGH you had clear evidence from 4chan and reddit how fascism grows on online forums through deliberate discussion manipulation

I have reported over 30 incidents of social media sliding from inauthentic accounts and all it did was get be banned for 2 days for being 'rude'.

You get what you fucking deserve and I'm going to enjoy watching your collapse

I left the USA 25 years ago and still keep a bank account at my parents' address. Not yet debanked.

And now I actually want and am rooting for armed homeless to commit acts on violence on government stooges who attempt to carry out this order. Time to start building guns for the homeless.