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Patreon bans alt-right content creators from earning money on its platform

Rejected submission by aristarchus at 2018-12-11 07:10:12 from the Another-one-bites-the-bust dept.
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Oh, Noes! It gets worse! Now Patreon is de-platforming the alt-right! Where will this all end? Will there be no free speech for the demented and deranged? What kind of world is this? From Mashable [mashable.com]:

Patreon, the subscription content service that allows people to receive donations directly from their audience, has taken a major stance against alt-right and far right content creators.

After banning Milo Yiannopoulos from using its platform to fund a "magnificent 2019 comeback," Patreon also banned British conspiracy theorist Carl Benjamin for... well, you probably know: being a scumbag human. James Allsup, a far right political commentator, was hit with a ban as well.

That makes three bans in a week.

Wow, three scumbags banned in one week! Is there a competition we do not know about? The Human Rights Grammies?

Without Patreon, Benjamin will not be able to receive donations from his fans. He was reportedly earning as much as $12,000 per month from the platform.

Yiannopoulos is perhaps the most well-known alt-right figure to get de-platformed from yet another service. He was banned from his biggest platform, Twitter, in 2016.

However, despite Facebook's attempts to purge fake news and racist commentary, Yiannopoulos remains unbanned from Zuckerberg's social network. Similarly, Yiannopoulos has not been banned from Instagram, either — no surprise since Facebook owns Instagram.

Facebook, interesting. Do you think? Nah, Zuck is jewish! Can't be a neo-nazi, like Horowitz, or Steven Miller, or Patrol 36 [wikipedia.org].

This has been a year where online platforms take greater responsibility to ban problematic figures, many of whom identify as members of the alt-right, from spreading malicious, incorrect, and defamatory information.

Right to free speech is not entitlement to a platform, nor a right to a revenue stream. Poor alt-right!


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