Stripe has frozen Gab.com's account

Re:Stripe has frozen Gab.com's account by scrollaway on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @11:31PM (#18136938)

I mean, what's surprising about it though? These people (Gab, Alex Jones, etc)... they paint a target on their back and yell to all the businesses "I'm bad! I'm nasty! You don't want to have me as a client! It's bad for your PR!".

I'm sure you can find inconsistencies because other people/businesses are better clients, don't pain a target on themselves, and if they break rules they aren't so blatant about it.

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Re:Stripe has frozen Gab.com's account by jchw on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @11:54PM (#18137061)

I mean I don't know whether it was fair or not for Alex Jones to be banned, no clue. What I do know is that plenty of people who really haven't broken any rules have been told to GTFO on the basis that payment networks don't want payments for sexual content. This bugs me even as a person who hasn't been affected by it personally.

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Re:Stripe has frozen Gab.com's account by scrollaway on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:06AM (#18137111)

But they did break the rules. The rules explicitly state no sexual/nsfw material. Am I misunderstanding you?

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Re:Stripe has frozen Gab.com's account by jchw on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:32AM (#18137215)

Stripe has that rule, but does Visa or MasterCard?

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Re:Stripe has frozen Gab.com's account by scrollaway on Thursday October 04, 2018 @01:04AM (#18137323)

Seeing as the category is called "Products or services that are otherwise prohibited by our financial partners", then it's definitely upstream of Stripe. I don't know who exactly has that rule, could be Discover for all I know.

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