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Can confirm.

Source: am a Shopify engineer

I wouldn't work for Shopify for ethical reasons. They continue to help far-right sites like Breitbart or Daily Wire make their money.

Quote: https://twitter.com/gvwilson/status/1552090373283090432

>Reminder: every single one of the sources cited by the neo-Nazi responsible for the Christchurch massacre had a store on @Shopify, and the company refused to deplatform any of them.

I'm glad Shopify isn't deplatforming entities that haven't been convicted in a court of law of a crime.

The tweet you linked to is doubly funny, since it was in response to Dan Price, who is under investigation for rape and physical abuse. Should Gravity Payments deplatform itself in today's guilt-by-association world?

You shouldn't base your ethics on what the law is - lots of unethical things are or were legal.

"Not convicted" is not the gold standard of ethics, you know.

I think in this case OP isn't referring to a criminal act nor are they speculating to the possible guilt of a crime so of course there's no need for a a court of law to determine the facts.

Presuming t the facts that OP has concerns about are undisputed they're not alleging a crimes. But crimes have never needed to be the basis for boycotting something. Moral opposite has always been sufficient.

You want to ban these people from exercising their rights? Yeah, I find them unruly and despicable too. Let us lobby up enough support and pass a bill. Let's convince everyone and rally up the entire country to pass a constitutional amendment. This is democracy. What you're seeking isn't that.

You want to bypass public decisions through proxy of corporations without public approval. That's a totalitarian/authoritarian future where a small group of corporate overlords rule general public.

If you think Breitbart and Daily Wire are far-right, you live in a serious bubble. If anything, both are middle of the road and a lot of conservatives would call them a tad left.

Funny how extremists see other lesser extremists as on the other side

Wow do educate us what you think is far right or far left.

Please share what you think are some examples of far right and far left. I was under the impression that both of these publications are pretty widely perceived to be right wing propaganda.

The litmus test is “would cloudflare take them as a customer?” If the answer is no then it’s a red-blooded American publication, if it’s yes then it’s a commie rag

And this is how democracy dies.

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