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> What I'm asking is if we as a public really want our payment processors to be making these moral judgements?

If this action was completely unprompted, sure, but I think we're talking about payment processors choosing not to associate with people who have already been the subject of boycotts on their previous platform.

A better example would be WikiLeaks which enjoyed a fair amount of public support at the time Visa etc declined to process their payments, as we have reasons to suspect that the pressure on Visa to do this may have been from the U.S. Government.

By contrast, there have already been numerous public protests against people hosted on the SubscribeStar platform.



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