Bitchute and FreeStartr Deplatformed By Stripe

Occidental Dissent has been in the crosshairs of the Far Left’s internet censorship campaign.

It started last March when we were censored by Disqus. We were suspended by PayPal in April and by Donately in June. The creeping censorship had been going on for months before Charlottesville. We were deplatformed by Donorbox in the aftermath of Unite The Right. The campaign against us culminated when Twitter changed their rules in December so they could specifically ban accounts like Occidental Dissent. We were one of the first to go in the Twitter purge.

Even before Unite The Right, the Alt-Right was scrambling to create alternatives to payment processors to fight demonetization. I know this because I raised money through a new service called RootBocks to go to Charlottesville. Every single one of those fundraising platforms was demonetized and destroyed by PayPal and Stripe. The second wave of fundraising platforms which included MakerSupport and FreeStartr have been similarly crushed by leftwing political censorship:

“Two alternative crowdfunding sites and one YouTube alternative start-up were effectively shuttered over the weekend by Stripe, a payment processing company. Freestartr, a free speech answer to Patreon, where conservatives like Laura Southern have been discriminated against; Bitchute, a YouTube alternative that grew to popularity after YouTube deleted or demonetized conservative channels; and MakerSupport, a fundraising platform also in competition with Patreon, were all affected. All of these platforms are very clear about staying neutral and allowing all speech on their platforms regardless of politics. The MakerSupport website reads, “MakerSupport is a platform for creators, by creators. Finally, crowdfunding is simple! We believe that creators of all stripes should be able to earn a living doing what they love.” Each alternative site is dedicated to providing space for anyone.

“This canceling of our business was done for political reasons by Edwin Wee, a Democratic political operative turned Stripe employee, and it exposes the libertarian lie that one can simply just go and create a competitor if one dislikes Silicon Valley ventures,” said Charles C. Johnson, CEO of Freestartr. “You can’t. We need to get over that canard.” …”

Suddendly, the issue has gained major political traction since the coordinated purge of Alex Jones was so blatant that President Trump himself was forced to intervene:

How can it be denied that this is going on?

The Huffington Post is lobbying for more political censorship:

“Payment processors including PayPal and Stripe have repeatedly promised to stop helping white nationalists and other racist groups raise money online. But a year after the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a bevy of openly racist individuals and groups still use mainstream payment providers to process credit card payments and crowdfund their efforts, HuffPost has found.

Over the past several months, Charlottesville headliners, such as Richard Spencer, Chris Cantwell and Jason Kessler, have lost access to several mainstream financial platforms. But white nationalist websites that publish Spencer’s racist rants, including VDARE and American Renaissance, still use Stripe to process credit card payments, according to the source code on their payment pages. …”

Think Progress is lobbying for more political censorship:

“A year ago, Americans watched on in horror as the extremism and hate of the so-called “alt-right”, which had long been festering online, materialized in a very real and terrifying form on the streets of Charlottesville.

In response to the violence, which left counter-demonstrator Heather Heyer dead and dozens of others injured, tech companies belatedly woke up to the fact that they were effectively providing safe spaces for far-right hate. These companies made promises to the public that they would take action, and soon cracked down on some of the far-right’s most prominent figures and organizations. …”

Right Wing Watch is lobbying for more political censorship:

“A year ago, Americans watched on in horror as the extremism and hate of the so-called “alt-right”, which had long been festering online, materialized in a very real and terrifying form on the streets of Charlottesville.

In response to the violence, which left counter-demonstrator Heather Heyer dead and dozens of others injured, tech companies belatedly woke up to the fact that they were effectively providing safe spaces for far-right hate. These companies made promises to the public that they would take action, and soon cracked down on some of the far-right’s most prominent figures and organizations. …”

This is all being done out in the open.

I will say it again: everyone needs to stop what they are doing, singlemindedly focus on this issue and use their platform to amplify awareness of social media censorship. Share your own experiences and what the ADL and Silicon Valley have been getting away with doing to others.

Note: Occidental Dissent hasn’t been banned by Stripe. We will let you know if that changes.