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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Ep 138 | Patreon Purge: Paypal and MasterCard Collusion | Roaming Millennial: Uncensored

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

After YouTube's Sargon of Akkad was banned from Patreon, figures like Sam Harris, Dave Rubin, and Jordan Peterson have decided to abandoned the site over its business practices. But now people are beginning to question whether payment processors, like PayPal and MasterCard, are the ones deciding which creators get banned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight, how involved are payment processors like PayPal in the ongoing Patreon debacle?

0:10.0

I'm roaming millennial and you're watching uncensored. So today we're going to do a bit of a deep dive into the recent happenings involving

0:30.1

the company Patreon, which if you haven't heard of it is a popular

0:33.3

crowdfunding site where patrons are able to support creators like musicians,

0:36.9

artists, or even political commentators on a monthly basis. A lot of this story

0:41.2

has already been covered in detail by other creators so I'm going to try to give you guys a shorter breakdown of everything that's happened.

0:47.0

As you may know in December 2018, that is last month, Patreon made the decision to remove popular

0:52.5

YouTuber, or Sargon of Akkod, as we all know him as,

0:56.2

from their site without warning.

0:57.6

The reasoning that the company gave for removing Sargon's account was, quote,

1:00.8

that the creator in question used racial and homophobic slurs as

1:04.0

insults in a conversation shared online and that of course was in reference to

1:08.5

this live stream where sargon address the alt-right.

1:11.1

See look this is what I mean about the chat.

1:13.2

I just can't be bothered to deal with people who treat me like this.

1:16.2

It's really annoying.

1:18.0

Like, I, you are acting like a bunch of shit, just so you know?

1:22.2

You, you act like white

1:23.8

mache exactly how you describe black people acting is the impression I get dealing

1:28.3

with the alt right I'm really I'm just not in the mood to deal with this kind of

1:32.1

disrespect and I know it sounds like oh my God he's demanding respect but yeah to be honest with you

1:36.8

Do you not think that like we should have a level of decorum in interpersonal interactions and it's that internet is bullying me. I'm not saying you believe me. I'm saying there's just no point dealing with this kind of attitude. Is it, I know it's called trolling, but it's not like something I need to deal with if I don't want to have to deal with it.

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