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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.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by jbruchon on Saturday January 12 2019, @09:37PM (2 children)
My perspective on it is that people we don't like must be allowed to speak, but for two very different reasons. The first is because the core value of freedom of speech is crucial to the progress of humanity and the seeking of truth, and censorship in any form is a way to hide the truth and hold back our growth as humans. That sort of ties into the second: how do you define and deconstruct the things that aren't okay? You must have a point of reference to work from. The most vile speech on the internet being censored only drives it underground and makes it attractive (a fruit of the forbidden tree, if you will) to the young, the rebellious, the mentally handicapped, and the psychologically vulnerable. You can't steer people away from bad ideas if they are being exposed to them only through back room whispers. Your loss of steering is tripled by a strong interest in the forbidden concepts stemming from heavy-handed censorship.
We have already seen this in the American attitudes toward sex, with an odd combination of hyper-sexuality and high-class eggshell-walking suppression of human sexuality in public and even most private situations, most recently exacerbated by the obscene excesses of #MeToo stifling even the most respectful sexual expressions such as asking someone if they'd like to go out for coffee with you. The end result is a lot of people who can't express themselves normally and develop serious behavioral aberrations as a result of such pressures. The behavioral sink [wikipedia.org] from the mouse utopia experiments [youtube.com] (on which the animated movie The Secret of NIMH was based) is a rather frightening example.
If you try to sweep the Nazis under the rug, don't be surprised when your actions breed a fuckton more Nazis. It has happened before and will happen again. Entire civilizations have fallen because of the failure to realize this lesson fully. Will Rome fall again? [history.com] We shall see.
I'm just here to listen to the latest song about butts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @11:21PM (1 child)
Ancient Greece in 18 minutes [youtube.com]
Ancient Rome in 20 minutes [youtube.com]
Perhaps submitter can offer eye-witness criticism or support of the first one.
(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Sunday January 13 2019, @03:03AM
Sorry, all that was before my time.