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principled move? Which principles were they following? the principles that made it OK for 8 years, or the principles were they decided to side with Russia's ag

• pokot0 5y ago
  I guess the principle is "it's bad for business". Every corp prioritizes business by design, it's irrational to expect ethical behavior (unless it's good for business).
• cloverich 5y ago
  Not implying a moral judgement in my question, I just noticed a lot of other comments jump directly into the discussion suggested by your statement without ever qualifying whether Patreon has political pressure (whether intrinsic or extrinsic) that would influence their decision one way or the other. I think it adds important nuance / clarification to the situation.
  • ejb999 5y ago
    but if political pressure lead them to their decision, it wasn't really a principled decision was it? It was a decision of convenience. A principled decision is one you make regardless of outside pressures - i.e. you stick by your principles; clearly patreon has no principles in play here. If it was wrong to allow donations, it was wrong since 8 years ago as they happily collected their commissions on donations.
    • cloverich 5y ago
      > but if political pressure lead them to their decision, it wasn't really a principled decision was it? Yes that is the point of my inquiry :)