Why is X, the free speech platform, using Stripe to pay X users, when Stripe is monitoring X users and denying payments to X users that exhibit “wrong speech”?
https://x.com/michaeljknowles/status/1947433739790733691?s=46
Affected users are told by Stripe “yes we’ve locked you out of your account (and your money) but if you want to know why, we sent a letter to X and you have to ask them about it.”
X has one person and a shoe string running its live customer service experience, so if you eventually reach a living person for further support on this, that person will simply say “yeah we got a letter saying you violated their ToS.” There is no additional information provided.
Stripe’s ToS only includes “inciting violence” as a relevant breakpoint for X users (speech violations).
Yet in response to this thread, many users came out claiming they had also been locked out of the funds they generated on X.
X management sits idly.
Posted by SaltyyDoggg
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The people who complained so far about being de-banked have been mostly investigated and/or found guilty of wire fraud, tax fraud, misleading investors and other kind of fraud. This has also been the case so far for other banks.
So far there has been not a a single person ”de-banked” which has had credible business dealings with Stripe for their political views or public commentary.
If you know so, please forward the evidence of such, but so far it’s just another lie circling around within the far-rightwing.
Yes, if you look shody to a bank, they will not accept your X-crypto nonsense. That’s the free market. Sorry, not sorry.
Michael Knowles is also saying white genocide is happening which is literally a Nazi talking point.
Fear mongering bs
The irony is that de-banking someone for their opinions really is…. dickless
Michael Knowles is also part of the group that wanted to eliminate the CFPB which actually prevents debanking, so he can go fuck himself