The whole backlash against Patreon didn't start now as they've done stuff like what that person on Twitter complains about but it culminated in the strange circumstances involving the banning of one Carl Benjamin, aka. Sargon of Akkad. People are upset about this, even outside of politics not because they support or even agree with Carl Benjamin but because of what Patreon did, and still does.<p>They banned the guy over a 10 month old livestream on an obscure channel where he criticised the alt-right using their own vernacular. If you ignore context, then sure, it is "hate-speech". The issue here is, however, that Patreon explicitly said that they only enforce their policies on their own platform in their terms. (Jack Conte said the same thing, explicitly on a podcast.) And yet, they suspended a creator, without warning and shoddily still allowed new people to pledge money to him. For other creators this does shows that their livelihoods can be shut down any time, any moment, for any reason, on a whim of someone on that "Trust & Safety Council".<p>Let us not mention the blatant hate-speech they allow _ON THEIR OWN PLATFORM_, even among their top 20 creators.<p>If you entrust your livelihood to a platform, you want someone neutral and someone who takes the time to notify you about changes related to your income, even if it's via automated messages.