An open letter to the corporate fascists at Stripe
An open letter to the corporate fascists at Stripe
Stripe's shameful and evil persecution of Robert Malone will backfire and blow up in the company's face, and in Substack's too!
Note to readers: If you have not already done so, read Robert Malone’s post to understand the reasons why I am writing this letter to the curs at Stripe.
To the people of Stripe:
It came to my attention late yesterday that you are deliberately persecuting Robert Malone. He shared the details of your persecution in a post here on Substack. I am not going to regurgitate here everything he wrote, nor will I spend time analyzing it or bother going through it.
Instead, I have a message for you:
I will not bow down to you, you disgusting, corporate fascist vermin! You are free to terminate my Stripe account the second you see this post, if you wish to do so. The only power you have over us is what we give to you, and I choose to give you none whatsoever.
And what will I do if you terminate my Stripe account? The answer is simple: I WILL KEEP WRITING! You will not slow me down or stop me from writing the content I want to write in any way whatsoever. Your payment processing is a convenience to me, nothing more.
The second my Stripe account is terminated, all content on this Substack will be permanently free, and payment will be purely voluntary, by other means. Each page on this Substack will have crypto and other payment information included on it, and none of it will depend on your payment processing.
Readers who wish to do so will be able to contribute to my financial support through other means. You and your payment services will be permanently dispensed with, and you can take your corporate fascist bullshit, and shove it up your asses.
I recognize that I am not on your radar at the moment; my Substack subscriber numbers are far too small for you to bother with me. You are going after the big fish first, but you will come for the little fish eventually. Well, do your worst, but remember that even little fish sometimes have teeth, and will bite anyone stupid enough to try to lay hands on them.
I want you to know how much your company disgusts me. The deliberate targeting of individuals who share thoughts and information you do not approve of is vile, and you should be ashamed of your behavior. But, as with all tech tyrants, you are not capable of shame because you have no moral or ethical framework through which to properly view the world.
Well, so be it; you are what you are, and the entire world can see it now. So you have my answer before you even send me one of your stupid emails demanding that I “link my account” or whatever other bullshit you told Malone.
And to my friends at Substack: Get off your asses and figure out alternative payment processing options, or you will be the ones losing revenue. Talented writers will quickly bail out of this platform, and you will find yourself in a downward spiral from which you will never recover. Stripe’s perfidious persecution of Malone has already damaged Substack’s reputation.
To put my money where my mouth is, so to speak, I have paused Stripe payment processing for my Substack. I will accept no further paid subscriptions, and current subscribers will not be billed again until I turn it back on.
Do you understand now, Substack and Stripe? You do not have control here; I do, and it is I who will decide if I will allow Stripe to continue working for me as my payment processor on Substack. For the time being, Stripe payments are off for this Substack. Stripe will not get a dime from my paid subscribers, nor will Substack.
Yet, the content will still flow. My readers will still enjoy my scribblings, and there is NOTHING WHATSOEVER that Stripe can do about it. 🖕🏻
And now I shall close this letter with something special from Moby Dick for the corporate fascists at Stripe:
"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee."
Morgthorak the Undead
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If I find a writer I like, such as you, I would follow them to a different platform (and definitely a different payment system!). Content always wins in my book / preferences, and it doesn’t have to be something I always agree with.
You are doing a noble thing, but I wonder if kofi, buymeacoffee, paypal, etc use stripe as well. It seems to be the number one payment processor worldwide.
I suppose the true alternativve would be paper checks sent to your mailbox. That's probably the only thing Stripe couldn't intervene in.
I wonder why Substack doesn't use parallel economy or square.
It could go back to being the number one processor world wide.