So Richard Spencer's website has been taken down and he's still struggling to find a viable crowdfunding platform so lemme explain how some of this works.
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How it does work: companies who handle money, such as banks, payment processors, and the like, have Terms of Service with their customers and clients. These TOS bind the customer to certain agreements.
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Many of these agreements are there to ensure regulatory compliance. Money-handling institutions have many laws they must comply with, including the PATRIOT Act, Know Your Customer, and other regulations.
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The TOS often contain boilerplate language about extremism, terrorism, drugs, money laundering, etc. To ensure compliance, most companies contract this work to firms that specialize in this domain.
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These contractors will investigate TOS violations and recommend termination if they are found.
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All of this is pretty general; I'm not talking about my employer or any of the asinine conspiracy theories against me.
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Because there are but so many firms doing compliance work, it's not hard to be a Known Person to many of them.
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So that's basically it. There's no leftist, Jewish, antifa conspiracy. What there is is an entire network of regulatory compliance teams trained to root out extremists. And this has existed for decades.
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But it does make for some "entertainment" as Nazis further their delusions of a vast conspiracy targeting them specifically.
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TL;DR Version What Nazis think I do: *participate in a Jewish run, communist banking conspiracy (??!?) to stymie them* What I actually do: *spent 7 hours today trying to determine why an observable bug appears unobservable, and therefore undetectable, in the data*
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