Payment processor Stripe on Friday banned the immigration restrictionist website VDARE from accepting credit card payments. The move came just about one week after the company announced a new partnership with Goldman Sachs.
Article originally published at Information Liberation.
Stripe + Goldman Sachs. Awesome to see this live.https://t.co/OBHilBnYxp
— David Haber (@dhaber) December 3, 2020
Lydia Brimelow: VDARE's payment processor just abruptly announcied that it intends to stop working with us after Sunday, Dec.13. if you were intending to make a donation to VDARE in 2020 and want to use a credit card, please do so NOW. #TechTotalitarianshttps://t.co/n3vZsLXKAy
— VDARE (@vdare) December 12, 2020
Red Ice revealed they were banned from Stripe as well and questioned whether the decision was related to their new partnership:
Stripe is now partnering with the 'great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity' GOLDMAN SACHS.
This is the reasons why they banned multiple sites & alternative media recently @redicetv included.
It was part of the "deal". Communists ❤️Goldmanhttps://t.co/4GCYPQ9zy8
— President-Elect Henrik Palmgren 🇸🇪 🐗 🇺🇸 (@Henrik_Palmgren) December 13, 2020
All the recent unjust bans from @stripe (us included) make sense now. They sold their soul to the devil for more money. Bankers call the shots. They have all the power but eventually their wicked deeds will catch up to them. https://t.co/fsrl59mko7
— Lana (@LanaLokteff) December 13, 2020
VDARE founder Peter Brimelow said Stripe management “resisted” banning them “for a long while” but there now appears to be “a widespread purge going on.”
Leftists discussing who should get credit for getting our payment processor to ban us. Apparently management resisted for a long while. But we hear there's a widespread purge going onhttps://t.co/iRT3evKJQW
— Peter Brimelow (@peterbrimelow) December 13, 2020
Earlier this year, Goldman Sachs announced they were going to actively discriminate against white men by refusing their IPOs.
Over the past several years, an ever-expanding list of political dissidents and Christian pastors have had both their PayPal accounts and their bank accounts closed due to their political and religious views.
In 2015, Americans could pretty much say whatever they wanted on social media sites without facing much censorship — yet today the majority of Americans could be banned from YouTube for openly expressing their political views.
Judging by Big Tech’s rapidly expanding definition of “hate speech” and “misinformation,” it may not be long until most everyday Americans face similar threats of “debanking.”
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