PayPal ends business dealings with Alex Jones's Infowars

Re:PayPal ends business dealings with Alex Jones's Infowars by throwaway_trust on Friday September 21, 2018 @08:28PM (#18043734)

I do not criticize their decision to select customers with whom they want to do business.

Definition of hate alone is extremely broad. And depends from culture to culture, country to country. Do we want many Interents with each having it's own rules? Or one Internet connecting people like it was envisioned to be?

I'm asking more meta/philosophical question here. What kind of precedence do they set with these actions?

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Re:PayPal ends business dealings with Alex Jones's Infowars by pcbro141 on Friday September 21, 2018 @08:40PM (#18043796)

I don't think they're setting any precedent here. It's not a new thing for people and businesses to distance themselves from people who say batshit crazy things like this. You cannot talk like this and be surprised when people want to distance themselves from you:

When I think about all the children Hillary Clinton has personally murdered and chopped up and raped, I have zero fear standing up against her. Yeah, you heard me right. Hillary Clinton has personally murdered children. I just can't hold back the truth anymore. Hillary Clinton is one of the most vicious serial killers the planet's ever seen.

[0] http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-hillary-clinto...

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