People can say and do what they want. People who are for free speech are all for this, the other thing people who are for free speech don’t mind is people and services not servicing people.
This seems to be a big disconnect, that people somehow think not making it illegal, is the same as forcing people to do it. Why do people keep coming with this argument?
This isnt the case. As has been said, several times, by many people. Patreon are well within their right to censor people as much as they want. This isnt the issue. The issue is how they went about it. That they did it through lies, that they went against their own rules and terms, and that they pretend to their users that the rules actually mean anything is the issue.
Free speech advocates might think patreon is doing the wrong thing, but wouldn’t stop them from doing it. They just want them to be honest about it.
This is the difference between people who want to police speech, and those who don’t.
Less than zero. I want to reward content creators.
Now patreon can have all the rules and all style. When they ban a content creator I like or even threaten content creators.
I’d like to ditch them because they are nothing to me like Visa or Mastercard are nothing to me. Stay the fuck out of my way or you become the problem.
To be honest, im in this camp pretty much. Patreon are a middle man, and essentially are nothing. They like to act like they are more (believing for example that they are they ones who make the money for creators, and that they should police your content, wanting you to get permission from them to post things anywhere internet or otherwise), but they’re a middleman, they help process payments for people.
they’re the butter robot from rick and morty, in reality their function is pretty mediocre and replaceable.
In “The Great Gatsby”, the question “having a gay time?” is asked a few times. And for people who don´t know what that question means, it is apparantly quite funny.
Imagine if all the things you ever said and will ever say have been recorded. Now get someone who knows they can buy the data set containing the username “kuro68k” or aliases of said user. How big is the fallout if someone goes cherry picking and misquoting?
Is this thread still serving its purpose? I think this has turned into a debate as to whether a word or words should be blanket banned irrespective of context.
I disagree with Patreon’s actions, so I’m cancelling my account there.
What’s the next best method to kick down some money for the best Tech News program on the Internet? I’m scrambling to find alternatives for everyone I fund.
It sounds like Ko-fi is (optionally) supported by the content creator, in return the content creator gets some extra options. Which at $6 per month or $59 per year isn’t too bad IMO.
