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Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by ineedasername on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:56PM (#25724277)
I don't see how it's anti competetive. The free market advocates on HN would say that other people will create other companies and gain the market share current companies have turned down. Or that existing niche companies will find an expanded market serving them.

It's also important to note that companies aren't cutting ties with Trump because of his political ideology, they're cutting ties with him because there's a strong argument he broke the law, and they don't want to be in the awkward position of facilitating that, especially as it could open them to their own legal liability.

Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by Grimm1 on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:27AM (#25725386)
That's exactly my stance as a free market advocate. I heavily think it's the wrong move to grant some special status to these existing companies.
Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by imperio59 on Monday January 11, 2021 @12:59AM (#25725163)
We could say there is a strong argument Joe Biden and his family broke the law, and indeed there's a criminal investigation into Hunter and associates.

However not only did all the big tech companies not withdraw support for Biden or prevent his campaign from using their apps, they doubled down and censored the story so most voters would not hear of it before the elections.

Again, big double standards at play here from a moral sense.

The larger issue here is that the internet really isn't so decentralized as it used to be.

There's like 10-20 major companies that control the majority of services people use, or the underlying infrastructure that powers the whole internet. This goes against the original design of the internet which meant it to be fully decentralized so no single entity or small set of entities could prevent the flow of information.

We should try to go back in that direction, either through competition and free markets or by enforcing it via existing or new regulations to prevent situations like this from ever happening again.

Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by JibJabDab on Monday January 11, 2021 @10:10AM (#25729862)
For what is Hunter being investigated for? According to several articles, its for tax and money laundering which is not at all what everyone was making a fuss about a few months ago (the laptop/emails, which reminds me of Hillary and "Her Emails!").

Given that there's uncertainty around it, can we really conclude that "they broke the law" and that it's unfair that big tech did not withdraw their support?

Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by ineedasername on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:32PM (#25739693)
Biden wasn't using Twitter as one of the tools to commit the crime.
Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by colejohnson66 on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:25AM (#25725795)
The Hunter Biden conspiracy has been debunked dozens of times over. That’s why the companies haven’t withdrawn support for his family. Trump, OTOH, has pushed the boundaries of acceptable his entire presidency, and has almost certainly broken the law in the process many time.
Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by thrwawy12345 on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:48AM (#25726758)
Do you happen to have a link or other source to this debunking?
Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by MrPatan on Monday January 11, 2021 @11:55AM (#25731674)
I can do a quick google and find so many journalists in twitter saying the story is debunked! What do you want twitter to do in the face of such overwhelming evidence coming from twitter?
Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by JuliusPullo on Monday January 11, 2021 @08:11AM (#25728403)
It has NOT been debunked. What you have is the media constantly repeating that it has been debunked.