Re:Stripe Hires AWS' Mike Clayville as Chief Revenue Officer
by rmorey on Thursday August 06, 2020 @01:39AM
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Cry me a river, Stripe isn’t the government. Gab is clearly a platform for hatred, and it was totally in their purview to drop them as a customer - and oh look: Gab’s still here anyway. Baloney.
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Re:Stripe Hires AWS' Mike Clayville as Chief Revenue Officer
by itsoktocry on Thursday August 06, 2020 @08:32AM
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>Gab is clearly a platform for hatred
It's an "also-ran" social network, nothing more. It has minimal influence.
The fact that it's the place people end up when they're kicked off other platforms doesn't make it a "platform for hate", any more than Facebook.
Re:Stripe Hires AWS' Mike Clayville as Chief Revenue Officer
by judge2020 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @10:25AM
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Does Gab not police neo-nazi content?
Re:Stripe Hires AWS' Mike Clayville as Chief Revenue Officer
by throwawaysea on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:39AM
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Gab is not a platform for hatred. It is just a general social network. Much of what is said about it is exaggerated. But leaving that aside, a payment utility should not get into the business of dictating what customers can and can't say beyond the minimal legal requirements in that jurisdiction. This is how we get a monoculture where wrongspeak is not permitted.
As for your "Gab's still here" comment. Clearly the lack of willing payment providers, hosts, registrars, etc. is a hindrance that costs them time and money, and prevents them from being as successful as they could be. The "still here" measure is not a valid measure of anything.