I saw someone link Right Wing Watch as a source so I figure it's time to get some fair reporting from Tim Pool (Liberal. Former Vice Media Journalist). Stream where he discusses initial Patreon CEO lying to him among other things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgj4K_4uhlA
This behavior is nothing new for Patreon. Vice had lawyers attack Patreon to get Naomi Wu kicked off of Patreon. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FETt5JzufY4
Also, Sword and Scale, the 5th highest Patreon account has announced they will be leaving Patreon once Peterson and Rubin's new platform starts up.
To all the left-leaning types defending Patreon (a Silicon Valley corporation), I'd like to hear your answers to a few questions:
Why should a corporation buckle to an alt-right harassment campaign and ban a centrist like Sargon? The quote was from his debating of alt-right troll commenters , and ever since he debated Richard Spencer, there's been constant campaigns to deplatform/defund him. Why are you handing the actual ethno-nationalists and far-righters a victory by being their useful idiots?
Is it fair for a platform like Patreon to ban someone for a single offense, with no warning, while allowing other higher-profile individuals to stay with multiple violations of racism, calls to violence, and holocaust denying conspiracies? For the record, Sargon has done neither of these. In regards to the latter two, he regularly tells his viewers not to harass his opponents, and the alt-right types give him nicknames like Sargoy for "defending his Jewish masters."
Why should a corporation ban a female Chinese engineer (STEM), from mainland China, when the targeting is coming from U.S. based sources like VICE? If China has a censorious nature concerning Chinese women dressing in a manner more common in western civilizations, why should "progressive" U.S. corporations enforce dated sexist interpretations of female attire for a content creator posting to a global platform, who isn't even from the same country as them?
Why is it that every company/individual that becomes a contender against Patreon gets banned from Paypal and Stripe? Do you really think there is no Silicon Valley collusion to silence "wrongthink", and if there is, why is this justified? Subscribestar, a Patreon alternative is now unable to process through Paypal after the Patreon bannings.
Is it fair for Sargon, self-employed, relies on donations/ad revenue, to be banned for a single offense while a multiple-offender of racism Sarah Jeong stays employed with a six figure salary at The New York Times (has always and continues to work for massive corporations)?
If the Sargon banning is due to racism, then why are non racists (Tim Pool, Sam Harris, Sword and Scale, Styxhexenhammer666, Dave Rubin, Matt Christiansen, Wranglerstar, etc) concerned/contemplating leaving/actually leaving?
If Patreon's banning of Sargon is in violation of Federal Anti-trust Laws as some are now claiming, what should be done in regards to this specific situation and those affected by it (Sargon, his patrons, Patreon) and what should be done to prevent this from reoccurring?
