GODDAMNIT, PUT UP OR SHUT UP.
Wikileaks is moaning and squealing because Twitter halted its accounts.

"Conservatives" constantly moan and squeal about the unfairness of Facebook and Twitter and Youtube.

STOP IT.

Wikileaks has plenty of experts in 'workarounds' and alternate communication. WL's main job is exposing the evils of Deepstate channels. Why did you EXPECT Deepstate channels to help you publish your exposure of their evils????? You've had plenty of time and skill to develop alternates. You didn't. Too bad.

"Conservatives" don't have tech skill but they do have money and corporate influence and lobbying influence. You could put together an alternate social network, and you could persuade the regulators to clamp down on FB. You didn't. Too bad.

PUT UP OR SHUT UP.

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Well, it appears that some fairly big players are finally PUTTING UP. Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubin, and Sam Harris, all carrying big audiences, are trying to start a substitute for Patreon. Not really social media as such, but at least they're trying. Some commenters think any effort is doomed because Paypal and other online pseudo-banks won't let money go to the heretical alternative. True, but a workaround for that problem already exists. Direct payment from real banks, without the intermediary. Lots of online subscriptions are already running by direct payment.

Can banks refuse payment to heretical payees, when the payer and payee are both legal and solvent? Oddly enough this question doesn't seem to be answered in any online source I can find. I suppose Peterson et al will have the resources to find the answer.

Later: Here's most of the answer. The "Know Your Customer" rules implemented by the 2001 Anti-Patriot Act give banks the authority to halt transactions that seem suspicious. The provision was aimed at catching money contributed to "terrorist" groups, which means any group or activity that questions the Perfect Godly Authority of Goddess-Empress Hillary and God-Emperor Soros. The groups and activities banned by Paypal et al are definitely "terrorist" by this definition. A bank is less likely to make its own designation of "terrorist" groups, but any bank that fails to follow the lead of Paypal and Twitter and Facebook will risk prosecution, so banks will generally follow.

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WAIT. HOLD IT. A strongly contrary thought.....

Twitter and Youtube may be demonetizing or banning a few nationalists and heretics, but the BIG and IMPORTANT nationalists are using all social media without any observable limits. AMLO, Salvini, and Bolsonaro have highly active FB and Youtube accounts, carrying lots of important news and views that are perfectly opposed to God-Emperor Soros. So maybe the whole dispute is just a source of talking points.

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