It is frustrating to see rising intolerance of speech in the culture. Yes, Patreon has the right to decline to do business with people they don't like. What t

It is frustrating to see rising intolerance of speech in the culture. Yes, Patreon has the right to decline to do business with people they don't like. What they absolutely ought not do - and what Patreon might perhaps be held contractually responsible for, here - is to hide the ball and not be transparent about their reasons for removing people. This recurring theme is now showing up on a regular basis in social media - opaque rules of morality that you have to guess at and appear to be enacted at the platform's whim. If there are groups they don't want on board, they should say so. I suspect they don't because they fear the fragmentation and competition that laying those rules down would encourage.