Gays Against Groomers Get Financially Deplatformed

[Kamaji]

Gays Against Groomers Get Financially Deplatformed

Dissident group forbidden by PayPal and Venmo from using their services. This is how the social credit system will be used against us all

Rod Dreher
Sep 21, 2022

Just like that:

https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1572115130242179073

This is how soft totalitarianism works: no gulags, no jail time, just being excluded from the marketplace. We are rapidly approaching the point where one may not buy or sell without permission of the Regime.

This is also how soft totalitarianism works: the "Regime" is not the State alone, as in the earlier iteration of totalitarianism. It is rather the informal coalition of elites in government, media, finance, academia, and private industry (Yarvin's term "the Cathedral" is also good) who share the same illiberal left-wing convictions, and act in concert. It is Venmo's and PayPal's right to do what they're doing. But the effect is bad for democracy.

It's like with Amazon, when it decided not to sell Ryan T. Anderson's book critical of transgender ideology, and similarly-themed books. It's Amazon's right -- but if Amazon, with its dominant market share of the book market, decides that it will not sell a certain kind of book, then that kind of book will not be published.

It's entirely legal. Do you want a system in which a book seller is forced to sell books he finds immoral? I don't. But in Amazon's case, making a fully legal decision has dramatic consequences of freedom of speech and debate.

I don't know how this should work, in terms of legislation to solve the problem of financial deplatforming. But this is an issue conservative, libertarian, and authentically liberal politicians should start talking about -- and, when workable policies and laws present themselves, then acting on them. If not, people who dissent from the Regime's ideology will find themselves more and more driven to the margins, and forced through non-violent means to comply.

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Source:  https://www.theamericanconservative.com/gays-against-groomers-get-financially-deplatformed/

[mountaineer]

Gays Against Gr██mers
@againstgrmrs
JUST IN: While we’re not allowed to conduct business on PayPal, guess who is… an organization that offers a support group for “MAPs”
@PayPal banned us for being against pedophilia, but allow actual pedophile groups to use their services unabated.
#BoycottPayPal
5:51 PM · Sep 22, 2022
Thread:

https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1573067519132372998

[Free Vulcan]

Start cutting off their business. Red states could simply ban them for promoting pedophilia.

If it happens enough it will cripple them.

[aligncare]

My but we’re an open minded people. So open our brains fell out.

So now perverts are a protected class of victims? Perhaps a victim of circumstance. Yeah, the circumstance being they’re a pervert. Pity them. I see how this works now.

[Kamaji]

Gays Against Gr██mers
@againstgrmrs
JUST IN: While we’re not allowed to conduct business on PayPal, guess who is… an organization that offers a support group for “MAPs”
@PayPal banned us for being against pedophilia, but allow actual pedophile groups to use their services unabated.
#BoycottPayPal
5:51 PM · Sep 22, 2022
Thread:

https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1573067519132372998

That's grotesque.