The post is missing context. That's what I can find:<p>- Owen Benjamin has been removed from Patreon late 2019<p>- His fans file suits against Patreon claiming they interfered in their economic relationship with a content creator<p>- Under Patreon terms of service at the time, such a complaint has to be settled via arbitration under California's laws<p>- On January 1 Patreon changed their terms to ban users from filing complaints when someone is removed from the platform<p>- Patreon initiated a counter-suit against 72 complainers<p>- That has been denied Friday, Patreon will have to pay up to $10k per arbitration case<p>- Under California laws the updated terms of service can cause other legal issues (?)<p>- Patreon is now exposed to other lawsuits regarding other personalities removed from their platform
To understand what is going on, a summary of the legal repartee going on is as follows, written by Vox Day, who formulated the legal strategy and to my understanding, basically wrote all the legal briefs.<p>The crazy thing is that neither the lawyers nor the Trust & Safety people even read the Terms and Community Guidelines. I mean, one can excuse the gammas and the armchair lawyers for not knowing what the relevant rules and laws are, they're mostly reacting to what they've seen floating around the Internet.<p>But it's downright bizarre to me how the freaking lawyers don't even know what they're talking about. They'll write dozens of filings all based on the same false premise.<p>WE KICKED OWEN OFF BECAUSE HE POSTED HATE SPEECH ON OUR PLATFORM!<p>No, he didn't.<p>OKAY, WE KICKED HIM OFF BECAUSE HE POSTED HATE SPEECH ON INSTAGRAM AND WE POLICE OFF-PLATFORM SPEECH TOO!<p>Instagram is free.<p>WHAT? SO WHAT?<p>So Owen's Patreon account didn't fund his Instagram posts. Instagram is free.<p>WELL, UM, WE DID IT BECAUSE HE POSTED SOMETHING ON FACEBOOK!<p>Facebook is free too.<p>TWITTER?<p>That's free too.<p>WELL, HE MADE VIDEOS! ON YOUTUBE. HE FUNDED THOSE ON PATREON!<p>No, he didn't. He was monetized directly on YouTube and he never created a Patreon video project.<p>WE CAN KICK OFF ANYONE WE WANT FOR NO REASON AT ALL!<p>Allow me to introduce you to the Unruh Civil Rights Act of 1959....
It deserves to be in trouble considering they blatantly tried to kill speech of Saragon of Akkad and a few others. Monopoly shouldn't be abused in this manner.