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Someone like Jordan Paterson is absolutely not like Stormfront. Refusing to support a best selling author and professor because some vocal activists have launch
by apostacy 8y ago
Someone like Jordan Paterson is absolutely not like Stormfront. Refusing to support a best selling author and professor because some vocal activists have launched a smear campaign against him is not some sort of proxy for morality.
Businesses are doing things because their owners want to punish certain opinions, regardless of how popular they are. Visa and Mastercard are using their monopoly power as payment processors to interfere in elections and punish people who say certain things. And people on Hacker News are fine with this, because muh you should just make your own banking infrastructure! Free Market.
- darkpuma 8y agoAs far as I know Patreon haven't booted Jordan Paterson, the article suggests he's breaking his association with Patreon willingly.
- wsy 8y agoJordan Peterson is not banned by Patreon.
- beat 8y agoAnd yet, you believe Jordan Peterson is banned, when he is not. Think about how you came to that belief. Now, think about how much we want the people who convinced you of it to have an unrestricted platform.
- zaroth 8y agoYou’re assuming GP read a fake news article saying Peterson was banned. Much more charitable, and a safer assumption, is that this was a misunderstanding by the OP. Jordan Peterson was the one who, by boycotting Patreon in response to their behavior, created the association which led to this misunderstanding. He tied his leaving to this event directly. I seems to me that Peterson no longer felt safe putting his revenue stream in the hands of Patreon, because of what he saw as unfair and improper political bias which could one day disrupt his own finances. That to me is a lot more worrisome than someone being wrong on the Internet.