Patreon would absolutely have rolled all this back already if it was up to them. It isn’t. The MasterCard Visa cartel can destroy their business tomorrow without recourse or appeal, just like they can Stripe or PayPal. When wannabe Patreon competitor SubscribeStar took on Carl Benjamin all eight of their payment processors dropped them. This is not a Patreon thing.

https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1076886857445711872?s...

Thread where a journalist finds evidence to that effect.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U0mQjUA0T5INc_GDkwPJ2mfh...

Transcript of a call from the Patreon censorship department with a creator.