tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post2757188929061719262..comments2024-03-28T12:13:06.135-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: Big Brother doesn't need to censor you. Instead, he'll bankrupt you.Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-46009844209087141572022-05-05T19:20:11.332-05:002022-05-05T19:20:11.332-05:00How do you cancel a PayPal account?How do you cancel a PayPal account?Mind your own businesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03275026895680246324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-87493602063393083392022-05-05T15:19:32.178-05:002022-05-05T15:19:32.178-05:00This has been talked about for quite awhile, Peter...This has been talked about for quite awhile, Peter.<br />https://archive.ph/fvlKw<br />Section 230 Isn't The Problem, Payment Networks Are<br /><br /><i>The payment networks are more powerful than big tech. <br />Without the consent of all four major payment networks to stay in business, even mighty tech giants are vulnerable to lose billions of dollars in revenue. The various agreements enforced by the four major payment networks (MasterCard, Visa, Amex, and Discover) impose rules that any business wanting to exist in the digital economy must obey. Not all these rules are written.<br />The big payment networks like to stay out of the public eye. They avoid attention by using blacklists which they claim only banks can add to, but which they manage and share. You also never deal with the payment network directly. An eCommerce site passes your credit card information to a “payment gateway”, which is plugged into a “payment processor”, and that payment processor handles communications with the payment networks. Each of these are usually different companies. When you get banned from processing payments, you are told so by your payment gateway or payment processor, but the decision can come from much higher up. If it were, you’d be lucky to find out.</i><br /><br />Seriously, read the whole thing.<br />Nate Winchesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00630873800235819300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-21840617530655650662022-05-05T14:24:06.286-05:002022-05-05T14:24:06.286-05:00Because Musk isn't married to a satanist, and ...Because Musk isn't married to a satanist, and is totally supportive of the Right. No, the solution isn't to plead for help from a multibillionaire who doesn't care about, and probably hates, us. The solution is to build alternative platforms. There is no savior. We must save ourselves.<br /><br />I like what Space-X is doing, and the wailing of the twitter crowd is amusing, but Musk is no savior.Bibliotheca Servarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11643412827583261562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-24449908329325458492022-05-05T12:31:01.476-05:002022-05-05T12:31:01.476-05:00Here is an opportune time to ask the question I ha...Here is an opportune time to ask the question I have wondered for some time.<br /><br />How much cost in money and time to set-up and manage a blog hosting site which favors free speech?<br /><br />The benefits include being an example by which the herd within and out of blogging community) see the benefits for themselves.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15452530649659364201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-46268417567821963892022-05-05T11:59:37.888-05:002022-05-05T11:59:37.888-05:00Maybe it's past time for Musk to buy back Payp...Maybe it's past time for Musk to buy back Paypal? Would be nice to have a non-politically correct pay site.Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-21131897881626001412022-05-05T10:22:54.951-05:002022-05-05T10:22:54.951-05:00Anyone who wants to tip you can just buy one of yo...Anyone who wants to tip you can just buy one of your books.Brutushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11152278031028909806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-86032404937707518692022-05-05T09:41:47.539-05:002022-05-05T09:41:47.539-05:00Gab is working on it's own payment service. Pa...Gab is working on it's own payment service. Parallel systems. DiGi377https://www.blogger.com/profile/11327379350198625807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-19387579808019741872022-05-05T09:29:02.328-05:002022-05-05T09:29:02.328-05:00Don't forget that banks, TV stations, etc are ...Don't forget that banks, TV stations, etc are licensed by state or federal governments and face penalties from violating the terms of those licenses.<br />PayPal isn't a bank, FB, etc are not licensed, so they don't have accountability.<br />Also remember that with a free or cheap service, you are paying other ways. While credit processors can do some of this, they do far less and there are more options - but they have fees PP and services don't have.Jonathan Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10476185257203343474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-22087592985267237432022-05-05T08:38:23.888-05:002022-05-05T08:38:23.888-05:00Make that Wordpress.com, because sites powered by ...Make that Wordpress.com, because sites powered by software downloaded from wordpress.org will continue to work... unless their hosting providers or the private firms that comprise the interconnecting wires of the internet decide otherwise. (The .gov owns very little of the actual hardware.)Ed Skinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09332424242231481277noreply@blogger.com