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Re:Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture by eropple on Thursday August 03, 2017 @02:49PM (#14922529)
Patreon's pretty down-the-line: don't advocate that people break the law and don't harass people. They've thrown antifa off their site. They throw alt-right shitheads off their site.

We've met a couple times, Jon, and I've heard you speak; despite your public persona being prickly, I kind of got the feeling you were wiser than this.

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Re:Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture by ticviking on Thursday August 03, 2017 @04:49PM (#14923742)
When did the kick antifa off? I was under the impression they did so only after there was outcry when they kicked the alt-right off.
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Re:Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture by lr4444lr on Thursday August 03, 2017 @04:39PM (#14923653)
So those people advocating for those non-violent but illegal sit-ins during the Civil Rights era would've been marked for expulsion too?
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Re:Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture by nostrebored on Thursday August 03, 2017 @04:52PM (#14923768)
The thing is, the reason they gave her for banning in the initial letter they sent her is actually consistent with international law -- she was raising funds to send out a search and rescue ship which returns refugees to Libya.
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Re:Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture by azernik on Thursday August 03, 2017 @07:55PM (#14925168)
The reason they gave was fundraising for a ship that was blocking SAR ships taking refugees to Italy. They included footage of her actions blocking such a ship in the past, together with her actual fundraising appeal in which she referred to stopping boats.

Not sure if it's against international law when conducted in international waters, but that's definitely against Patreon's content policy of fundraising for activities that endanger human life.

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