debanked

The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control

by Jacob Siegel  · 24 Mar 2026  · 348pp  · 103,246 words

directed private banks to freeze the accounts of at least 257 individuals who donated to the trucker convoy, denying them access to their own money. Debanking, as the practice was called, spread rapidly throughout other countries. In the US, numerous January 6 defendants who were sentenced for misdemeanor charges related to

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the Capitol riot reported being debanked and banned by professional services like LinkedIn. Separation between public and private spheres had for centuries constituted the essence of liberal society. As the walls

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between them collapsed, state-directed informational power rushed across the breach. Debanking was one instrument in the larger arsenal. The whole-of-society framework had erected a 360-degree police force made up of the companies a

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and the consolidation of what Pinkoski described as a new mode of postliberal politics, in which “civil society, especially its economic dimension, is being weaponized.” Debanking punished people by disconnecting them. It leveraged the widespread dependence on digital hyperconnection as a disciplinary tool. But for the good citizens who were allowed

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, as there was always some new cause banging the drums of emergency. Online swarms seemed to be growing in power and frequency as practices like debanking spread. Within weeks of the first Black Lives Matter protests in the US, similar demonstrations had sprung up in Brussels, Bratislava, Guadalajara, Lagos, Tokyo, and

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of civilization. Winning would require him to buy back a public square where people could freely criticize prevailing orthodoxies without fear of being canceled or debanked. Musk would have been thinking about power and profit as well. He had witnessed the 2020 advertiser boycott of Facebook, in which activist groups demanding

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The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent

by Ben Shapiro  · 26 Jul 2021  · 309pp  · 81,243 words

Tarrio of the Proud Boys and radical activist Laura Loomer. Jamie Dimon, CEO of Chase Bank, said, “Very directly, we have not and do not debank people because of their political views.”41 For now, presumably. This threat extends beyond the financial services industry. When Amazon Web Services, whose sole job