Now PayPal has banned Alex Jones

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/paypal-bans-alex-jones-infowars-website-conspiracy-theories-from-processing-payments

HA!

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Very worrying.

You're worried about the blacklisting of a guy who spouts conspiracy theories about "the Jews"?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Very worrying.

You're worried about the blacklisting of a guy who spouts conspiracy theories about "the Jews"?

The internet essentially functions as the public space these days, except that we are forced to operate on the "premises" of big multinational tech companies. But just like it should be possible for somebody to spout Alex Jones' nonsense on the streets, it should be possible to do this on the internet as well.

And he still can. He just can't use PayPal to sell his snake oil products anymore.

(And there are TONS of other payment processors. PayPal isn't even close to a monopoly.)

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

No one seems to care that PayPal also bans porn sites from using its services, which is also First Amendment protected.