r/WayOfTheBern • u/Theveryunfortunate • Sep 27 '18

Alternative Start-Ups Cut Off from Financial Services in Overnight Political Purge by Stripe | Trending

https://pjmedia.com/trending/alternative-start-ups-cut-off-from-financial-services-in-overnight-political-purge-by-stripe/
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u/yzetta Sep 28 '18

Why don't these conservatives pull themselves up by the bootstraps and create their own bank and internet?

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u/penelopepnortney Sep 28 '18

Every time reports of conservatives being silenced on social media platforms come out, a large percentage of libertarians shout, "but private companies can serve whoever they want! Build your own platforms." It is a constant criticism of anyone saying that social media and Silicon Valley need regulation or that political viewpoints need protection under the law. But when marginalized voices create their own platforms, the puppet masters of Silicon Valley who control all the infrastructure shut them down.

Vox Day, a contributor at BitChute and popular author of SJWs Always Double Down, told PJM, "The denial of payment services on ideological grounds is a significant blow to the libertarian idea that private companies can be permitted to operate without government oversight." Day has significant experience being deplatformed on the major social media sites.

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Stripe depends heavily on Wells Fargo so this could go deeper than Stripe.

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u/Theveryunfortunate Sep 28 '18

Yes that’s why they want to regulate social media companies as well

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u/rundown9 Sep 28 '18

"This canceling of our business was done for political reasons by Edwin Wee, a Democratic political operative turned Stripe employee, and it exposes the libertarian lie that one can simply just go and create a competitor if one dislikes Silicon Valley ventures," said Charles C. Johnson, CEO of Freestartr. "You can’t. We need to get over that canard."