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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, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @01:44PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @01:44PM (#785893)

    What Nazis need is a hug, not a punch.

    Nazis belief is that they stand against the "other" that will "kill them" or "oppress them". If you punch a Nazi, it just breeds more Nazis. The same with terrorists - if you kill terrorists you just breed more of them. The only solution is re-education, and a hug is a first step. You can only tear down the hate wall of Nazis through conversation.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4gly9n9RBo [youtube.com]

    Of course they may need to be put in some sort of a holding place until they stop being so paranoid about "others", but eventually it works.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @05:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @05:04PM (#785936)

    Yes, I like this. We can only turn to war when love and liberty have been exhausted, and only for so long as is absolutely necessary. Our own spiritual strength in love and liberty can make these nearly inexhaustible.

    Yet we must be aware. History indicates that as a Nazi movement progresses from quantitative to qualitative [marxists.org], war becomes necessary, for a limited time. I have vague hope that once a socialist culture [wsws.org] is able to emerge, war can become vestigial and fade away.