Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt

Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re... by barry-cotter on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @09:00PM (#18766653)

Good luck with that when Visa and MasterCard wil kick you off their payment processing network and get other payment processors to do the same within hours. Cartel behaviour, right? SubscribeStar had eight payment processors. Now it has none.

Transcript of a call from Patreon’s Censorship department and a creator. It doesn’t take much reading between the lines to know it’s payment processors.

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

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Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re... by raintrees on Friday January 04, 2019 @12:22AM (#18822163)

I remember reading in multiple places that an admired design point of the Internet is its ability to route around damage.

I believe crypto-currencies are, among other things, an attempt to route around the damage of payment processing blockades... And I would expect that to eventually (if not already in reality) include SWIFT and similar fiat currency monitoring systems.

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