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> Gab is and always has been a legally operated business. We sell hats, shirts, and a software subscription service that unlocks new features on Gab. My persona
by exolymph 6y ago
> Gab is and always has been a legally operated business. We sell hats, shirts, and a software subscription service that unlocks new features on Gab. My personal credit score is in the 800’s. I pay my bills. I have a wife and daughter to provide for, yet we are all being punished and defamed because someone at Visa has it out for me.
And why does Visa have it out for him? Operation Chokepoint only ended formally, that's why.
Payment processing is used as an end-run around the First Amendment.
- bediger4000 6y ago> Payment processing is used as an end-run around the First Amendment. What ever happened to "nobody is required to fund your free speech, buddy"? Market forces led to TV, radio and newspaper consolidation in the late 80s-early 90s, and the FCC abandoned the "Fairness Doctrine", which was essentially anti-market. It's good that this fine fellow has funded his own press in Gab.com, there's also Parler for the less stout of heart, but if market forces cause him to go bankrupt, I'm sorry, that's personal responsibility for you!
- dragonwriter 6y ago> > Payment processing is used as an end-run around the First Amendment. > What ever happened to "nobody is required to fund your free speech, buddy"? It's an end run when, as is not unheard of, it is government pressure on payment processors that underlies them cutting off services to unwelcome activities, if what makes the activity unwelcomenand a focus of the government pressure is an activity protected against government interference by the First Amendment. If it's purely the uninfluenced preference of the payment processors, sure, that's not an end-run around the First Amendment.