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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…
Free speech != white supremacist
A quick glance at Gab seems to show a large number of hate groups. Perhaps PayPal simply do not want the fallout that might ensue from that association.
Google has already removed the Gab app for violating their hate group policy. Apple and Twitter have also removed them.
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Or in other words: "Entity believes that discretion can be misused, despite thinking discretion is important" Which is an extremely reasonable position. (I've never heard of Gab.)
Well, now you have. It's white supremacist Twitter.
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Paypal is not the government. Stop this absurd misrepresentation of censorship.
Stop the absurd misrepresentation that only the government censor.
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?
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Are they doing anything illegal?
In most countries, yes. But illegality is not the issue here. People simply have a right not to be associated with hate.
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Historically, voat and gab were set up because its users disapproved of the moderation on reddit and twitter. That differentiates the cultures on voat and gab from their predecessors.
That is an extraordinarily charitable way to describe the genesis of Gab, which actually has roots in a YC batch (that its founder, Andrew Torba, was kicked out of).
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Are they doing anything illegal?
You don't have to do anyting illegal for me not to want to conduct business with you.
Was Gab actively supporting the hateful groups more than just giving them a speech platform? Because if not, this is truly terrifying. It seems like the "left" (whatever that means), with waves of ignorant support, is turning into the monster it thinks it's fighting against.
PayPal is a profit-oriented company, not the "left" - whatever that boogeyman means. A company that doesn't want to support one of the most vitriolic, hateful platforms on the internet. Speech has consequences and can turn violent and this platform welcomed these people and this hate speech (by explicitly catering to those that got banned from other services etc). Relevant: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/201…