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Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by SV_BubbleTime on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:47PM (#25722568)
> You can’t refuse to do business with protected classes. But political affiliation is not a protected class.

FYI, political affiliation is protected from discrimination in CA, NY, and DC.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/can-employers-discri...

Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by JumpCrisscross on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:55PM (#25722668)
> political affiliation is protected from discrimination in CA, NY, and DC

Lawful political activity is protected from workplace discrimination. That’s a far stretch from making it a general protected class, and wouldn’t prevent Stripe from refusing to work with the Trump campaign.

Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by dragonwriter on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:37PM (#25723644)
> That’s a far stretch from making it a general protected class,

There's no such thing as a “general protected class”; there are different lists (and different effects of the status) of protected classes in various categories of law (public accommodations, employment, housing, etc.)

Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by SV_BubbleTime on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:19PM (#25723495)
Ok. Seems like the same spirit of the law to me, but you are explicitly right.