I've been reading Joshua Moon's (owner of KiwiFarms) old articles, and in one of them he linked this piece which doesn't seem to have been covered anywhere else. This Dick Masterson guy tried making a Patreon alternative as Patreon has proven in the past that they're more than willing to censor those that they disagree with, on top of providing a clear view of how digital deplatforming works.
What ended up happening is that his business was put on a global card processing blacklist known as MATCH, which is maintained by Mastercard. His blacklisting resulted in him not being able to process cards, collect subscriptions and run his business. Not even offshore banks were willing to deal with him, since they used MATCH code 10 "violation of standards" which is the harshest one.
It is clear that it's not just woke-infected companies that censor, censorship flows downstream from Big Finance. Elon Musk can take over Twitter and fire all the people in the trust & safety board, but what does that matter if Big Finance can just stop people from paying your business?
People have spoken about how the WEF and Klaus Schwab want to institute a digital currency to enact even more censorship, even more authoritarianism, but the truth is that we're already living in this future.
If you're using a bank account and a card, your money is numbers in a database. Whether you have US dollars, Euros or Pounds, this doesn't change. The only money that you truly own is cold, hard cash but you can't pay an online business with cash, so you're forced to use cards.
So you have to submit to Big Finance. If you don't do what they want, they shut you down, and they're a requirement for functioning in today's highly digital world.
There's plenty of examples of this happening now. This is one of them, there's others including cases where people's actual bank accounts were shut down, which is even worse than payment processors shutting you down.
However, things might have reached a turning point. PayPal went full mask off with their 2500 dollar "misinformation fine" and now they're getting absolutely obliterated by the backlash. Especially since they had the gall to lie about it. They backpedalled, then tried to sneak it back in a few weeks later, thinking we all had the memory and attention span of Joe Biden, but we did not.
Let's hope the momentum keeps up and we fight back against Big Finance. Western governments thought they could get around pesky little things like constitutional rights by delegating their authoritarianism to companies, which was pretty clever, but it must stop.
Nool may be an unstable, depressed alcoholic, but he's usually dead on about this kind of thing because it's basically his job to fight globalist tyranny.
Almost everything wrong with the internet can be traced back to the fact that our money is controlled by a small handful of cowardly sociopaths who would gladly kill their own mothers if it meant their next billion dollar paycheck arrives a day sooner.
They backpedalled, then tried to sneak it back in a few weeks later
This didn't actually happen. The clauses people thought had been snuck back in had been there for ages. I guess it's good that those clauses finally got some attention but its bad that it came at the cost of credibility. Next time Paypal will actually put it back in and can point to this event and say "look! they were wrong about us putting it back in last time, why believe them this time?"
I've been reading Joshua Moon's (owner of KiwiFarms) old articles, and in one of them he linked this piece which doesn't seem to have been covered anywhere else. This Dick Masterson guy tried making a Patreon alternative as Patreon has proven in the past that they're more than willing to censor those that they disagree with, on top of providing a clear view of how digital deplatforming works.
What ended up happening is that his business was put on a global card processing blacklist known as MATCH, which is maintained by Mastercard. His blacklisting resulted in him not being able to process cards, collect subscriptions and run his business. Not even offshore banks were willing to deal with him, since they used MATCH code 10 "violation of standards" which is the harshest one.
It is clear that it's not just woke-infected companies that censor, censorship flows downstream from Big Finance. Elon Musk can take over Twitter and fire all the people in the trust & safety board, but what does that matter if Big Finance can just stop people from paying your business?
People have spoken about how the WEF and Klaus Schwab want to institute a digital currency to enact even more censorship, even more authoritarianism, but the truth is that we're already living in this future.
If you're using a bank account and a card, your money is numbers in a database. Whether you have US dollars, Euros or Pounds, this doesn't change. The only money that you truly own is cold, hard cash but you can't pay an online business with cash, so you're forced to use cards.
So you have to submit to Big Finance. If you don't do what they want, they shut you down, and they're a requirement for functioning in today's highly digital world.
There's plenty of examples of this happening now. This is one of them, there's others including cases where people's actual bank accounts were shut down, which is even worse than payment processors shutting you down.
However, things might have reached a turning point. PayPal went full mask off with their 2500 dollar "misinformation fine" and now they're getting absolutely obliterated by the backlash. Especially since they had the gall to lie about it. They backpedalled, then tried to sneak it back in a few weeks later, thinking we all had the memory and attention span of Joe Biden, but we did not.
Let's hope the momentum keeps up and we fight back against Big Finance. Western governments thought they could get around pesky little things like constitutional rights by delegating their authoritarianism to companies, which was pretty clever, but it must stop.
I honestly forgot about this. It's a vile escalation of financial warfare and sets a terrible precedent.
Nool may be an unstable, depressed alcoholic, but he's usually dead on about this kind of thing because it's basically his job to fight globalist tyranny.
Almost everything wrong with the internet can be traced back to the fact that our money is controlled by a small handful of cowardly sociopaths who would gladly kill their own mothers if it meant their next billion dollar paycheck arrives a day sooner.
This didn't actually happen. The clauses people thought had been snuck back in had been there for ages. I guess it's good that those clauses finally got some attention but its bad that it came at the cost of credibility. Next time Paypal will actually put it back in and can point to this event and say "look! they were wrong about us putting it back in last time, why believe them this time?"