Posted on 09/01/2018 7:51:51 AM PDT by pacific_waters
The campaign to destroy conservatives continues. Stripe blocked a conservative crowdfunding site from raising funds.
Stripe has De-Platformed FreeStartr
FreeStartr currently has lost the ability to collect funds for our creators.
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We are busy developing another payment gateway solution, but it will take some time to bring this online. (Watch this space).
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I thought by now someone with deep pockets would have taken these companies to court and cleaned their clocks.
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Anyone who reads this... do not put your credit cards into any payment gateway that uses stripe... they are trying to silence conservativ voic s... no feeding the beast.
Any legal type people remember this? In the 1980s or 90s a court forced a private club to allow blacks to become members. It wasn’t directly because they were discriminating against blacks but because business discussions took place in the club and they weren’t allowed to deny people a livelihood.
What the hell is stripe
They are a payment gateway, allows you to take payments (credit,debit cards) over the internet. I’ve always found their technology pretty solid, this is disappointing.
I think that our church used to use them for online donations. Sound very familiar.
A “private company” that has a cash flow larger than many nations is not really a private company, it’s a nation-state, and should be treated as such.
Yup, same rates as paypal but it’s for CC usage, people who don’t have paypal. I’ve used it.
So when is that whole mark of the beast thing going to start? Seems like we’re getting close to the point where no man will be able to purchase anything without it.
I think we are going to see a bunch of law suits aimed at libral businessmen and there use of corporate ascents to go after individuals they don like over the next couple years with a lot off them loosing everything in theses law suits.
Arrgh. I still have Stripe and it’s only for one $10 monthly payment at this point but I’d still like to ditch them since they’re doing this. Looking for alternatives on wordpress.org and so far I found 2checkout. Looked at their about page, found owner’s name, did a search and found his FB page and at the bottom it shows he supports enviro causes and LGBT. Next
Does this kind of stuff violate legal tender laws at all?
Ping.
Just ballpark, what percentage of the online payment processing market do you think Stripe has?
Why?
Does the right of Free speech extend to the right to hear?
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