Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re...
by someguydave on Thursday December 27, 2018 @12:06AM
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> a call between the head of Patreon’s Censorship team and one of their creators.
Not only that, she was formerly a PayPal employee and had been working at Patreon for only a few months. Reading between the lines, it seems likely that Patreon was being told by PayPal that they had to fall in line with PayPal's censorship or lose PayPal (and thus mainstream credit card) processing.
Good luck with that. The Visa MasterCard cartel will not allow a Patreon competitor with different standards to use their payment infrastructure and will use their connections to get any competitor kicked off of other payment processors.
It’s been two weeks and SubscribeStar still don’t have a replacement for the eight payment processors that dropped them all at once after they took on Carl Benjamin.
Patreon would have backed down by now if that was an option.
It’s all about the payment processors, as you’ll figure out pretty quickly if you read this transcript of a call between the head of Patreon’s Censorship team and one of their creators.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U0mQjUA0T5INc_GDkwPJ2mfh...