Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re...
by darkpuma on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @05:24PM
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As far as I know Patreon haven't booted Jordan Paterson, the article suggests he's breaking his association with Patreon willingly.
Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re...
by wsy on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @05:27PM
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Jordan Peterson is not banned by Patreon.
Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re...
by beat on Thursday December 27, 2018 @09:37AM
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And yet, you believe Jordan Peterson is banned, when he is not. Think about how you came to that belief.
Now, think about how much we want the people who convinced you of it to have an unrestricted platform.
Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re...
by zaroth on Friday December 28, 2018 @08:00AM
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You’re assuming GP read a fake news article saying Peterson was banned. Much more charitable, and a safer assumption, is that this was a misunderstanding by the OP.
Jordan Peterson was the one who, by boycotting Patreon in response to their behavior, created the association which led to this misunderstanding. He tied his leaving to this event directly.
I seems to me that Peterson no longer felt safe putting his revenue stream in the hands of Patreon, because of what he saw as unfair and improper political bias which could one day disrupt his own finances.
That to me is a lot more worrisome than someone being wrong on the Internet.
Businesses are doing things because their owners want to punish certain opinions, regardless of how popular they are. Visa and Mastercard are using their monopoly power as payment processors to interfere in elections and punish people who say certain things. And people on Hacker News are fine with this, because muh you should just make your own banking infrastructure! Free Market.