Would you be okay with Patreon funding terrorists? I mean we can play this game of what is morally correct and what is right and wrong for ages, but in the end it's safer to not get involved at all.
For one, credit card companies would no longer deal with Patreon if they find out they were passing money to fund a military.
Re:On the removal of Come Back Alive
by reaperducer on Friday February 25, 2022 @09:39AM
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Would you be okay with Patreon funding terrorists?
Are Ukrainians terrorists? No. Ukraine is a sovereign nation under attack. Do you not understand that?
Inventing completely unrelated hypothetical situations and edge cases doesn't make what Patreon did right.
Funding terrorists and insurrectionists is always wrong.
… but funding freedom fighters is encouraged.
George Carlin: “If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight?”
Re:On the removal of Come Back Alive
by kevinmchugh on Friday February 25, 2022 @08:57AM
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The credit card issuers have lots of rules and enforce them only on merchants and professors. The result is we get mad at Patreon when they get skittish about rules visa and Mastercard expect them to follow.
Oh, well, if it's a violation of their Terms of Service, then everything is perfectly OK. /s
Notions like this are what makes it so easy for the real world to hate people in the tech bubble.
Protip: Terms of Service !>= Doing the right thing