I’ve mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, opposition to big banks and big tech is welcome. But the replacement is precisely the thing that they claim to be fighting against. They want an economy built on exclusion, just one that excludes the right people.
It’s always the way with conservatives. They don’t oppose cancellation, censorship, or manufactured narrative. They just want to be the ones canceling, censoring, and crafting the narrative.
They aren’t opposed to big banks and big tech. They are opposed to regulations and rules.
They love regulations and rules as long as they are not bound by them. There is nothing they love more than adding regulations and rules to other people’s lives.
They just love regulating genitals.
Entrepreneurs and influencers from across a spectrum of conspiracist and religious communities gathered in Las Vegas in March to discuss building an “uncancellable” future together.
Being “canceled” is a badge of honor for these fucks. It’s a marketing boon. No one uses this word in the real world. “Hey everybody, let’s cancel Trump, then he’ll go away!” Fucking idiots.
Parallel economy. Whites only!
Why fix the system we have when we can ruin a brand new one?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Entrepreneurs and influencers from across a spectrum of conspiracist and religious communities gathered in Las Vegas in March to discuss building an “uncancellable” future together.
A few weeks earlier, a news story by Mother Jones about the event highlighted a promotional appearance that GabPay’s executives had made on far-right conspiracy theorist Stew Peters’ streaming show.
GabPay founder Lonnie Passoff’s interview with Peters included an exchange where the two sarcastically dismissed the idea that antisemitic conspiracy theories are hate speech.
Some of these businesses aren’t small: At one point, pillow salesman turned pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell’s MyPillow company had almost $300 million in revenue.
“The bulk of it happens as a response to some tragedy in the real world,” said Megan Squire, a computer and data scientist tracking extremism with the Southern Poverty Law Center.
She said waves of debanking and deplatforming have followed violent episodes like the deadly Unite the Right white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 and a number of mass shootings explicitly motivated by hate.
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See, this is where Monero would be helpful because it’s permissionless and nobody can tell you you can’t use it.
The article is about service providers, like payment processors, offering alternatives to far-right interests when incumbent providers refuse their business.
For a cryptocurrency to be useful, it would need to be accepted by the service provider. And I doubt you could pay for your anti-vax rally at the airport Radisson with crypto.
You can buy rooms there with crypto. So its possible.
No, unfortunately that is simply untrue.
The payment processor in the article, Stripe, does indeed work with crypto businesses and allows users to keep a crypto balance, but you would need to convert to regular tender to book a room at a Radisson (at least according to their website).
Sadly for the hodlers, while you might be able to buy your coke and hookers with Dogecoin, the hotel will want a credit card on file.
You can get prepaid cards with crypto, so you could have the card on file with them. So, yes, it might be indirect, but you are still paying for your hotel with crypto. Heck, there’s even a travel agency that accepts crypto (which books hotels). https://www.travala.com/
Speaking from personal experience, prepaid cards rarely work for these types of transactions. If you think service providers don’t know the difference, you’re kidding yourself. There are good reasons to demand a real card.
Right, in which case the travel agency listed above would work.
Ok buddy.
