First Big Tech censored speech. Now they want to shut deplorables out of the financial system.
David Sacks
11 hr ago
First, in January, PayPal blocked a Christian crowdfunding site that raised money to bring demonstrators to Washington on January 6. Then, in February, PayPal announced that it was working with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to ban users from the platform. This week the company announced it is partnering with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to investigate and shut down accounts that the ADL considers too extreme.
The harm is compounded when the loss of speech rights is followed by restrictions on the ability to participate in online economic activity. Within days of the Trump-Parler cancellations, most of the finance tech stack (Stripe, Square, PayPal, Shopify, GoFundMe, and even enterprise SaaS company Okta, which wasn’t used by anyone in the events of January 6) declared they were canceling the accounts of “individuals and organizations connected to the [Capitol] riot.”
Tortuous overreactions to January 6th have become a virtue signal unto itself.
I'm waiting for car manufacturers to impound cars that were used to drive people there, the closure of restaurants that dared to serve them during their road trip, and the high schools burned down that graduated those people.
https://archive.ph/S5AJ4 https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/get-ready-for-the-no-buy-list
Tortuous overreactions to January 6th have become a virtue signal unto itself.
I'm waiting for car manufacturers to impound cars that were used to drive people there, the closure of restaurants that dared to serve them during their road trip, and the high schools burned down that graduated those people.
To paraphrase Michael Savage: Leftism is a Mental Disorder
At some point though groups like the ADL need to be sued for tortuous interference.