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"guilty for working on the destruction of society." is a big stretch. Stripe processing payments for the Proud Boys is a failure of regulation of the Proud Boys
by rswail 6y ago
"guilty for working on the destruction of society." is a big stretch. Stripe processing payments for the Proud Boys is a failure of regulation of the Proud Boys, not of Stripe.
Canada has declared the Proud Boys a terrorist organization. If they had bank accounts in Canada, the banks would not be allowed to keep them open or to deal with them. Neither would Stripe.
I don't know what the situation is where someone uses a Canadian-bank issued credit card to buy something or transfer funds to the Proud Boys in the US. That would be similar to using it to transfer funds to Al Queda or ISIS if they had a bank account.
Cloudfare are not "happy" to protect those sites, but they are also committed to not censoring unless absolutely necessary and in accordance with the law.
So the tech examples you quote are about enforcing laws, not requiring big tech to somehow police itself by "fighting it like cancer".