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posted by martyb on Saturday January 12 2019, @07:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the It's-not-easy-being-white-supremacists dept.

Over at the CCN, Gab is having trouble even getting its bitcoin on.

The declaration by free speech social network Gab that the firm was still allowed on Square’s bitcoin-friendly Cash App after being banned on other platforms may have been premature.

This emerged after the social media platform that is occasionally referred to as “alt-right Twitter,” over its popularity with extremist right-wingers, disclosed that the personal Square Cash account of the firm’s founder and CEO, Andrew Torba, had been deactivated.

Things like this are just bad for business.

Earlier this month as CCN reported, Gab had posted a tweet that gave the impression that Square’s Cash App — which allows users to buy and sell bitcoin — had reactivated Gab’s access. According to Breaker magazine, Square might have unknowingly reactivated an account belonging to Gab but will continue to “pro-actively delete any new accounts that it learned were connected with Gab.”

[...] Besides Square, other platforms that have banned Gab in the recent past include cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, online payment processing firm Stripe, bitcoin payment service provider BitPay and online payments system PayPal.

Currently, bitcoin, as well as money orders and checks sent to its post office address, are the only ways for Gab to process payments for its premium service, GabPro. On January 8, Gab announced that it had integrated with open-source crypto payment processor BTCPay Server.


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @07:42PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @07:42PM (#785644)

    A twisted interpretation of history. As has been said a million times, if the NSDAP is a socialist party, then the DPRK is run by a democratic party and the PRC is run by a republican party. Hitler, Kim, and Mao do not represent socialist, democratic, or republican tendencies. You also smear the billions of Muslims in the world who are not violent. You ignore the role of Western imperialism in the creation of poverty, the overthrow of legitimate democratic governments, and the promotion of violence in the Middle East and Africa.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @12:04AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @12:04AM (#785714)

    Compare Nazi/fascist stuff with conservative/republican/right and with liberal/democrat/left to see what it looks like.

    Hitler preached class warfare, agitating the working class to resist “exploitation” by capitalists , particularly Jewish capitalists, of course. Nazi programs called for the nationalization of education, health care, transportation, and other major industries. They instituted and vigorously enforced a strict gun control regimen. (how else could they round up the undesirables?) They encouraged pornography, illegitimacy, and abortion, and they denounced Christians as right-wing fanatics. Nazis loved identity politics.

    It is what it is. If you are socialist, own it.

    Modern socialists in the USA would only disagree with a few things. They prefer globalism, and they would select different groups as the chosen people.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @05:42PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @05:42PM (#785940)

      You clearly need to study 1920s and 1930s Germany in more detail, so that you may understand the failures of the SPD and KPD and how the NSDAP used that to its political advantage.

      Socialism and fascism are very different. There are no chosen people in socialism. I will not own something simply because some uneducated idiot in the internet tells me I must.

      They instituted and vigorously enforced a strict gun control regimen.

      This one in particular bugs me. Please read this section (The Picket Line, Defense Guards/Workers’ Militia and The Arming of the Proletariat) [marxists.org] of Trotsky's The Transitional Program. It is only the pseudo-left, in their political collaboration with capitalism, that suggests disarming the populace. That right there should tell you gobs about the difference between Trotskyist socialism in its drive to arm the populace and Nazi fascism in its drive to disarm the populace.

      I was, and remain, a Second Amendment person, even as the "Second Amendment people" make the Founders of the USA spin in their graves.

      However, next I'm sure that, in your quest to equivocate socialism and fascism, you will tell me that Trotsky's worker's militia is no different whatsoever from the Montana and Michigan militias. Your view of the world is hopelessly superficial.