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Could you provide examples? I give to a couple of creators through Patreon, and I might want to reconsider.
by gdwatson 11y ago
Could you provide examples? I give to a couple of creators through Patreon, and I might want to reconsider.
- odessacubbage 11y agothe most egregious i'm aware of is when they removed fredrick brennan, the developer behind 8chan from their platform. brennan has osteogenesis imperfecta and had set up his patreon to help pay for a nurse/healthcare (and to get a cat) at the request of his userbase, myself included. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1bV0NBeG8E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1bV0NBeG8E it is worth restating that this patreon was not connected to the development of 8chan at all, but for the support of a disabled individual in need of assistance. patreon decided that this individual was worthy of complete censure from their funding platform. in my experience, most crowdfunding/e-busking platforms engage in a degree of censorship of one form or another. if the right people don't like you, they will find any number of reasons in their vague CoC to keep you out.
- sneak 11y agoAnother example: weev. While I care not for his white supremacist nonsense, no payment platform should be in the business of policing speech. They're jerks.