[rlmorel]

So, if I understand this correctly:

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• Patreon is a company that lets people decide to give money to support and obtain access to content produced by people or artists, in essence, an electronic way to be a patron for a favorite content creator.
  
  
• Some of Patreon's customers (not the contributing patrons) communicated something that Mastercard found offensive. (Richard Spencer is the prime example?)
  
  
• Mastercard pressured Patreon to ban the accounts of those customers, which Patreon readily did.
  
  
• Patreon has publicly stated that they have no recourse due to their Terms of Service agreement with Mastercard, and that because of this agreement, that their hands are tied.
  
  
• Rubin and Peterson are going to leave Patreon out of protest.

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Do I have that right?

[rlmorel]

Actually, the case in point was not Richard Spencer, but Sargon of Akkad?

[marktwain]

(Richard Spencer is the prime example?)

One of the key points is that Richard Spencer did *not* do what he is accused of. It was all simply false, made up.

The key here is the accusation by sufficient people on the left, is sufficient.

No facts need apply. No appeal. No law. No due process.

[Skepolitic]

The “prime example” is not Richard Spencer, the self-described white nationalist.

The MasterCard/Patreon ban was imposed upon Robert Spencer, blogger at JihadWatch, Fox News commentator, and best-selling author of The Truth about Mohammad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam.

[poinq]

Do I have that right?

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Yes, you have it right. But go a little further. Many went somewhere else, and they attacked that too. And this time it was PayPal that stopped supporting the account. And understand. these are not people who did something illegal. Or even hateful. Like a Nobel Prize for Literature, they were banned for a body of work. They body was conservative in one form or another.

[Bogey78O]

Carl Benjamin told two white supremacists that by their standard they were no different than the people they deride. Except he called them the banned word.

Carl was targeted and made an example.