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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: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @08:53AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @08:53AM (#785837)

    You know nothing about socialists, obviously. It's not very cool to bash something without knowing it. Please do some reading. I would suggest you start with Marx.

    Try it, you'll be surprised.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 13 2019, @10:09AM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 13 2019, @10:09AM (#785847) Journal

    Oh, please. Socialism has been around for a long time. It has been shown to work, many times, on small scales. As soon as socialism is scaled up beyond some limited point, it breeds corruption faster than almost any other known form of government. There is a list of nations that have adopted socialism - Russia (or the Soviet), China, Cuba, Venezuela. Cuba has done the best job with socialism, the others have all been rather dramatic and dismal failures.

    There is another list of nations that have adopted socialism to a limited extent. They range from moderate successes to failure.

    I have an idea: why don't you make a list of nations that have gone full-on Socialist, without any reservations, that have respected human rights (including the right to life) and have succeeded? I mean, resounding success. Show us when and where socialism has worked on a massive scale, better than any other form of government.

    It is pretty safe to say that communism or socialism is on par with Islamic governments. In fact, I could probably make the effort to demonstrate that those deist governments might actually work better than socialism.

    If you are going to claim that I am ignorant, you need to make at least a minimal effort to educate me - get to work, Comrade!

    Let me counter with - socialists know nothing of history and socialism.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @01:30PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @01:30PM (#785891)

      You know nothing about the world. And all you do is call everyone a socialist outside your radical-right circle. Fuck, you'll call Canadians socialist too for having universal healthcare coverage?

      It is pretty safe to say that communism or socialism is on par with Islamic governments

      Yeah, thought as much. Fuck you and your kind of small thinking idiots. You clearly know nothing how most of the rest of the world functions.

      • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 13 2019, @03:03PM (1 child)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 13 2019, @03:03PM (#785910) Journal

        No, fuck you, sideways, with a rake. I invited you to point out any nation which had adopted communism/socialism, and succeeded, but you don't take the opportunity. Now, you pretend that I've lived all my life in a fucking village, and don't know how the world works outside that village.

        No, I don't call everyone outside my circle a socialist. The world is even bigger than just my circle and socialism. For instance, I mentioned Islam, which is roughly on par with socialism when it comes to respecting human rights.

        Your socialism is just about the biggest enemy of humanity. Twenty million corpses in China, another twenty million in Russia - but you and your ilk want another opportunity to prove yourselves right.

        Once again, Castro's Cuba is the single best example of "socialism works" - and that example isn't especially great. Unlike some other examples, Castro didn't starve or execute huge segments of his population. Cubans did, however, suffer under Castro. Without Castro and communism, Cuba could have been as wealthy and up-to-date as any other Carribean country, and maybe even better than most others. 90 miles off of the Florida coast, tourism and trade, money just pouring in. Could have, but didn't.

        Give us examples, numbnuts. You can't, so you get angry with me, and insult me.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @08:26AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @08:26AM (#786358)

          Runaway is American, in the worst formulation of that attribute. Best to not read what he posts, it is either incoherent "old man" stuff, or the latest Islamophobe stuff from the usual sources, and Faux News. We all love Runaway, and we all want to remove his liver and bury him in a shallow grave down by Mine Creek.