PayPal terminates account of Epik, home to Proud Boys domain and Gab

I would say that there should be a source that at least tries to be neutral - but this seems to be the 'source'. Even with a cursory reading I stopped at 5 blatant lies. But who cares anymore

Re: PayPal terminates account of Epik, home to Proud Boys domain and Gab

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Post by gruez » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 2:40 PM UTC

s9w wrote: post #5

I would say that there should be a source that at least tries to be neutral - but this seems to be the 'source'. Even with a cursory reading I stopped at 5 blatant lies. But who cares anymore

>Even with a cursory reading I stopped at 5 blatant lies

elaborate?

Re: PayPal terminates account of Epik, home to Proud Boys domain and Gab

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Post by ravenstine » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 2:40 PM UTC

In the coming years, we may see the rise of separate economies based on political divide. I think this is where we are heading, and this will counterpart the world splitting the internet into nationally divided fragments.

Re: PayPal terminates account of Epik, home to Proud Boys domain and Gab

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Post by patrickaljord » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 2:41 PM UTC

jasonvorhe wrote: post #3

This is good news, but I suspect the "censorship cancel culture" crowd will be chiming in soon.

Well, I mean, when they were banned from twitter, people said "build your own twitter", when they built gab and got banned from credit cards processors they said "build your own financial system", when they got banned from cloudflare they were told "build your own internet backbone" etc... At which point this is not censorship when companies equivalent to public infra with big public contracts and ties to the government using public infrastructure paid by the people ban you from their services? I mean, imagine if this was happening to some people in China, people would immediately call it censorship, and rightfully so.

Re: PayPal terminates account of Epik, home to Proud Boys domain and Gab

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Post by s9w » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 2:42 PM UTC

gruez wrote: post #6

s9w wrote: post #5

I would say that there should be a source that at least tries to be neutral - but this seems to be the 'source'. Even with a cursory reading I stopped at 5 blatant lies. But who cares anymore

>Even with a cursory reading I stopped at 5 blatant lies elaborate?

I can't. Argumenting for that side makes the mods come out punishing, saying it's flame baiting, not what this site es for etc.

Re: PayPal terminates account of Epik, home to Proud Boys domain and Gab

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Post by cft » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 2:43 PM UTC

This is why the media establishment (Google, Facebook) hated Bitcoin so much. Because it gives financial viability to independent thought.