Apple Pay Is Cutting Off White Supremacists

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/apple-removes-payments-support-from-white-nationalist

by tareqak • 9 years ago

13 5 9 years ago

tareqak• 9 years ago

Techmeme summary: Apple Pay and PayPal disable support for several sites that promote or sell items glorifying white supremacy

howscrewedami• 9 years ago

So this is how we prevent wars in the 21st century. Insurgent DoS.

alexandercrohde• 9 years ago

Is anybody else worried that this "Shut off from the world" approach might not solve the problem at its root?

I'd worry that it wouldn't resolve the underlying tension but would only up the anger and cause them to retaliate in the only form they can - violence.

davidgerard• 9 years ago

... you say that like this wasn't literally a response to their present violence.

andriesm• 9 years ago

Just a curious question: is Apple applying the same standard and blocking also black supremacist and black nationalist (and say Islamacist stuff that is clearly anti-others) with the same vigour as it blocks white supremacists and neo-Nazis?

A double standard in this matter would send a terrible message.

Apple Pay Is Cutting Off White Supremacists

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