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Re:Gab.com banned from PayPal by zorpner on Saturday October 27, 2018 @09:04PM (#18318583)
This is exactly the fight you should be having -- the government should be a universal payment processor. I agree wholeheartedly. I am arguing again the people who state that a corporation should be obligated to serve a non-protected class.

if private processors can deny service for no reason

Ah yes, the "no reason" of being violence-inciting Nazis. What a reasonless judgement.

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Re:Gab.com banned from PayPal by vfclists on Sunday October 28, 2018 @05:14AM (#18319805)
Yes Paypal denied service for no reason, or more explicitly, no stated reason.

Do you see a reason stated in the termination notice?

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Re:Gab.com banned from PayPal by vfclists on Sunday October 28, 2018 @05:16AM (#18319810)
If you agree that the government should be a universal payment processor, then you must agree that the government should set itself as a universal payment processor "first", before granting the oligopolies they have licensed the right to deny service for no legal reason.
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Re:Gab.com banned from PayPal by someguydave on Sunday October 28, 2018 @07:41PM (#18323921)
It’s hard to see how the payment processors (operating under government license) are not violating the first amendment when they ban users. Perhaps someone will try that case one day.
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