Paypal shuts down conservative, veteran-owned company FakeMaskUSA – freezes nearly $100k in their money
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I don't get why people keep using PayPal, but I especially don't get why they don't learn from the mistakes of others that have been burned. If you absolutely must use it (and you don't) then attach the PayPal account to its own dedicated checking account and get that money to an account unaffiliated with PayPal ASAP except a small amount to cover any returns.
Realistically there aren't alternatives.
Sure there is, Gab survives without paypal or the ability to process credit cards. They have a PO box for people to send paper checks, and can process eChecks.
There needs to be an authoritative guide written that deals with these topics. It would be ideal if Andrew Torba were to write it, but barring that, I'd be happy to throw a quick post together.
Then, that guide needs to be distributed everywhere.
The problem with the dissident sphere is that all good info is so scattered, and also that all the websites are ephemeral forums focused on "news" rather than repositories of knowledge focused on practical advice.
Any advice you have to offer would be appreciated, since you seem to be one of the most knowledgeable guys in this thread.
For a quick and dirty list of services not to use, find the collated list of everyone who deplatformed Infowars. The list was more than 2 dozen companies, but given the present context, the important names for services one should avoid are Paypal and Square (payment processing), Squarespace (internet sales services and merch), Godaddy (domain registration), Wordpress (blog hosting services), Amazon Web Services (web hosting), MailChimp (mass email and email groups), Google and Apple play stores (smart phone apps), Discord (many right wing chat rooms closed for political reasons), and Twitter/FaceBook (social media).
All of those services, plus some I am sure I am forgetting, have acted against right wing groups for political reasons, and therefore must be considered suspect, at best.