Re:Stripe Hires AWS' Mike Clayville as Chief Revenue Officer
by throwawaysea on Thursday August 06, 2020 @12:00PM
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> have you considered the rights of the companies providing these services
These big payment platforms (Paypal, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, etc.) are not really private organizations. They are public utilities providing a fundamental service required to operate our society, especially when they are as ubiquitous as the big players like Stripe. They should either only police speech to the extent the law requires, or be regulated heavily so they don't enact their own speech stifling policies. The alternative is that we outsource all our fundamental rights bit by bit to private companies who then support just speech they align with.
> Hate is not a protected class of citizen, you absolutely can push out people who deserve to be outcasts.
I'm not commenting on the legality. I am commenting on the fact that it violates the fundamental principles of free speech, which are more basic than our laws.
These big payment platforms (Paypal, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, etc.) are not really private organizations. They are public utilities providing a fundamental service required to operate our society, especially when they are as ubiquitous as the big players like Stripe. They should either only police speech to the extent the law requires, or be regulated heavily so they don't enact their own speech stifling policies. The alternative is that we outsource all our fundamental rights bit by bit to private companies who then support just speech they align with.
> Hate is not a protected class of citizen, you absolutely can push out people who deserve to be outcasts.
I'm not commenting on the legality. I am commenting on the fact that it violates the fundamental principles of free speech, which are more basic than our laws.