‘Too little, too late’: Extremism experts criticize payment companies

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Stripe, PayPal and Square say that they had stopped providing services to individuals and organizations connected to the riot at the US Capitol in an effort to enforce policies against inciting violence. Extremism experts say it’s too little, too late.

David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via Getty Images fileAfter violent Trump supporters stormed the Capitol last week, several mainstream payment companies pledged to sever ties with groups or individuals promoting hate and violence.

“It’s unfortunate it takes these acts of violence for them to take white nationalism seriously,” said Jade Magnus Ogunnaike, senior campaigns director of Color of Change, a civil rights advocacy group. “It’s only when we have armed insurrectionists storm the Capitol building, urinate in people’s offices, steal their computers and kill a member of the Capitol Police that they see it as a big enough issue.

Square, a mobile payments processor, continually monitors accounts that may promote violence, discrimination or dehumanization, according to a company spokesperson who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of safety concerns. But following the riots at the Capitol, the company deactivated accounts affiliated with those events, the spokesperson added.

In 2017 the nonprofit launched a campaign called Blood Money, which identified white nationalist and supremacist websites and attempted to disrupt their funding mechanisms. “Periodically there are moments that spring up in which the subject of far-right extremism becomes almost impossible to ignore. Bad press becomes a driving factor and companies take responsibility for specific accounts rather than changing their overall policies or bringing in people who can moderate their service with a level of sophistication and care," he said.

 

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I couldn’t imagine walking this earth without a PayPal account.

Liberals... remember, the wind always changes!

We can boycott them too!!!

Another step closer to a totalitarian state.

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Wait until the domestic terrorism convictions start. Banks and credit card companies, by law, can not do business with terrorists, domestic or otherwise. No mortgages, car loans, etc. Trump supporters will be walking cash to the utility companies to pay their electric bills.

So now they are judge jury & executioner as to who did what. Who incited the whole summer of riots and fires? And no, I’m not a Trump supporter.

Very good!

They're all using bitcoin or secure digital currencies. They're all communicating on Telegram and Signal while bedwetters hashtag and cry on Twitter...

Every drop fills a cup!

Are they returning the fees they already collected from the Trump campaign?

Texas, Florida, and other states want to separate, from our Democrat high-tech dictatorship. Florida Governor Makes Move to Divest State Funds from Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Twitter: Texas would separate from the United States, and many other states will join them.

It's about time!

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