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Re: Gab.com banned from PayPal

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Torba had an unrelated YC startup during the batch that was running during the 2016 election season. He was ejected from YC for harassing batch-mates; there's an HN thread about it you can find in the search bar. He started Gab at just about the same time as he was kicked out of YC.

> He was ejected from YC for harassing batch-mates; there's an HN thread about it you can find in the search bar This? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12934388

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Re: Gab.com banned from PayPal

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If PayPal bans Gab because they dislike the speech available on Gab, it is literally an attack on Free Speech. I understand you feel differently.

PayPal isn't the government.

A phone company isn't the government either, but I am pretty sure Samsung is not allowed to deactivate my phone because they did not like my speech.

Re: Gab.com banned from PayPal

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post #84

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If PayPal bans Gab because they dislike the speech available on Gab, it is literally an attack on Free Speech. I understand you feel differently.

I don't know what Gab is, or what its typical content is like, though I'm getting an idea from the replies to this tweet. But the principle of free speech has nothing to do with the right of a company to use Paypal's services. It's to do with the right of individuals to say what they like without government incarcerating or otherwise harming them or their ability to speak.

If an entity stifles speech that entity is against Free Speech.
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