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Re: Gab.com banned from PayPal

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I am sort of assuming this is related to this article? https://www.businessinsider.com/pittsburgh-synagogue-shootin... Is Twitter, who also gave him a forum and declined to censor or punish him for threatening tweets, being similarly affected?

Twitter doesn't use PayPal to process payments, does it?

I assume not, but I figure someone does payment processing for them that an upset crowd could apply pressure to?

I guess I was generally curious if people thought there'd be any sort of similar repercussion(s) toward Twitter though. I finally got off Twitter a couple months ago and can still imagine a likely "outrage bubble" yesterday about their handling of that account, but with little actual impactful change in user usage of the service, etc. (In fact, if anything, "major" events like this likely drive a lot of traffic, even if there's criticisms.) (Please note, I'm explicitly not commenting on whether or not I think the criticism/handling/etc is appropriate or justified.)

Re: Gab.com banned from PayPal

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It should honestly come as no surprise considering Gab, much like Voat, is a website filled with some of the most vitriolic and racist garbage I've ever seen. No company wants to be associated with a walking PR disaster.

Most of the time however they're more than happy to take money from said places as long as people don't make it into a big PR problem.

Re: Gab.com banned from PayPal

#24

Can someone provide background context for gab.com?

It's ostensibly the "free speech" version of Twitter, in practice it mostly caters to the far-right. The Pittsburgh synagogue shooter was a user: https://archive.fo/k63LE

His profile has now been nuked by Gab, but only to save face after the shooting. They would usually pride themselves in not removing that kind of content.

Re: Gab.com banned from PayPal

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Good. Now for Stripe. I already called their customer support this morning and told them I'd pull my organization's account unless they dropped Gab. I'm sure I'm not the only customer who has. They enable payments processing for Gab, which means that they also profit from Gab. They make money off the alt-right. They choose to make money off the alt-right.

You want protests in front of your office, Stripe, raising hell about the blood money you take? We can surely arrange that. For every TechBro being oh-so-concerned about "financial censorship, oh noes!": you ain't seen nothing yet.

not doing business with white supremacist profiteers > nice API and documentation

Re: Gab.com banned from PayPal

#27

It should honestly come as no surprise considering Gab, much like Voat, is a website filled with some of the most vitriolic and racist garbage I've ever seen. No company wants to be associated with a walking PR disaster. Most of the time however they're more than happy to take money from said places as long as people don't make it into a big PR problem.

As bad is voat is I've seen that aspect of humanity on Youtube, Facebook, the comment section of most major news sites, the live chat of twitch, etc.

Re: Gab.com banned from PayPal

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Good. Now for Stripe. I already called their customer support this morning and told them I'd pull my organization's account unless they dropped Gab. I'm sure I'm not the only customer who has. They enable payments processing for Gab, which means that they also profit from Gab. They make money off the alt-right. They choose to make money off the alt-right. You want protests in front of your office, Stripe, raising hel…

Does Stripe still process payments for Gab?

Re: Gab.com banned from PayPal

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post #29

Good. Now for Stripe. I already called their customer support this morning and told them I'd pull my organization's account unless they dropped Gab. I'm sure I'm not the only customer who has. They enable payments processing for Gab, which means that they also profit from Gab. They make money off the alt-right. They choose to make money off the alt-right. You want protests in front of your office, Stripe, raising hel…

Does Stripe still process payments for Gab?

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