Website On Bank Charges Gets Shut Down
A rather insightful website that operated in the pursuit of campaigning against bank charges has been given the heave-ho by its Internet service provider.
It was called Penaltycharges.co.uk and was set up by a gentleman named Stephen Hone. The ISP that deleted the website, is known as 1and1.co.uk and by their reckoning, they are the biggest web hosting company in the world.
The main reason that 1and1.co.uk site for the deleting of the website, is that the advice that it was offering, or part of it, was illegal.
Mr Hone is of the reckoning that no such advice was given, and has thus moved the website to a different provider. His opinion, is that his website did not suggest that consumers borrow money with no intention to repay it.
It is believed by Mr Hone, that the complaints were made by loans companies, that enjoy the lack of transparency in the sector within which they operate, and therefore were unhappy with a website that exists in order to elucidate on behalf of the consumer.
It all relates to a post made, that explained how to go about obtaining a repayment programme, when unable to pay back borrowing in an adequate fashion. When Mr Hone refused to remove the post, 1and1.co.uk felt that they had no option but to remove the offending material.
Apparently. The post, along with others, that suggest the borrowing of money without intention to repay, contravenes the Theft Act of 1968.
Specifically the post said that it was possible for people to cancel contact numbers, so that loan companies become unaware of how to get in touch with the person that is indebted to them.
Mr Hone started the website, subsequent to becoming one of the first people to successfully claim back his bank charges.
He felt it only right after that, to become a campaigner against bank charges, and that is when he realised his vision of setting up a website in order to help people like him. People that were suffering at the hands of a flawed financial system.