Patreon May Have Violated Anti Trust Laws In Sargon Debacle
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🗓️ 20 December 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Patreon May Have Violated Anti Trust Laws In Sargon Debacle. YoutuberLaw and I discuss the issue of Anti Trust laws and whether or not there was collusion to shut down competition following the ban of Sargon Of Akkad, aka Carl Benjamin.
There doesn't seem to be a reason for payment processors to shut down a deal with a Patreon competitor other than to protect Patreon from the damage it caused itself.
Youtube Law is a tech lawyer who weighs in on the issue.
Perhaps its an issue of social justice activists targeting Sargon but it could also be a greater attempt to stifle competition to their platform.
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| 0:00.0 | Yesterday, a YouTube channel with over 1 million subscribers came out in defense of Sargon |
| 0:05.9 | of Akad by asking all of his fans to terminate their Patreon accounts and pull their funding |
| 0:12.2 | off the platform. |
| 0:13.6 | His video was titled Band by Patreon, let the witch hunt begin, this is from Wrangler |
| 0:17.1 | Star on YouTube, who it's my understanding he makes workshop videos, nothing too political. |
| 0:23.1 | The backlash from major creators is continuing and it just spells more bad news from Patreon. |
| 0:29.1 | It would seem like the decision made by Patreon's trust and safety team is causing massive |
| 0:33.7 | damage to their company. |
| 0:35.3 | They may not be losing tons of money, they may still be maintaining a lot of income, |
| 0:39.2 | but they are certainly PR damage and they are losing money subscribers. |
| 0:43.6 | Now this work is really interesting. |
| 0:45.5 | YouTube or law, a channel on YouTube who talks about legal issues pertaining to technology |
| 0:49.3 | and YouTube, said this could potentially be an antitrust violation. |
| 0:53.7 | Subscribestar is a competitor to Patreon. |
| 0:56.6 | Both of us that are involved in this we kind of moved over, even Jordan Peterson created |
| 1:00.2 | an account and announced it. |
| 1:02.1 | Shortly after, PayPal and Stripe terminated their agreements with subscribe star causing |
| 1:07.1 | damage to that business. |
| 1:09.1 | And this is where it gets strange, why would they do it? |
| 1:12.4 | There doesn't seem to be a practical business reason to terminate a competitor to Patreon. |
| 1:17.3 | PayPal works with Patreon, Patreon made a bad move and Patreon was losing business to |
| 1:22.5 | a competitor. |
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