Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re...
by eli_gottlieb on Thursday December 27, 2018 @01:27PM
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It's not new, but I do believe back in the day there was such a thing as public-access television, and anyone could in fact start their own newspaper without being somehow banned from taking cash payments.
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Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re...
by SolaceQuantum on Thursday December 27, 2018 @04:27PM
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They are still not banned from taking cash payments. They are banned from using a specific cash-taking service. It is still possible to set up a PO box to mail cheques to. Public-access television did not mean that anyone can have a show(or was entitled to being shown), either, iirc. They could still start their own newspaper, and the indie/local newspaper cycle is still being perpetuated in artsy or politically leftist circles.
Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Re...
by eli_gottlieb on Friday December 28, 2018 @11:51AM
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>They are still not banned from taking cash payments. They are banned from using a specific cash-taking service. It is still possible to set up a PO box to mail cheques to.
That's a de facto ban and you know it. There have been zero cases in which an internet business has kept itself above-water via asking for checks to be sent to a post-office box.
Instead, there should just be a post-office payment processor, operating over the network like all the others, and legally required to serve any customer.