[JackCh]

They can and have, but it seems happen a lot less. This is an instance where the shades of gray are important.

Furthermore you have to consider the non-binary nature of being demonetized. Youtube may demonetize only 50% of your videos, leaving your channel active but severely impacting the predictability of your income. Patreon provides stability and therefore a sense of security that creators are desperately looking for. You might lose significant income seemingly at random because your neighbor turned up their radio a little bit too loud and triggered ContentID, but so far Patreon isn't taking away creators' income for chickenshit stuff like that.

[Mindwipe]

Not really. Patreon is just as arbitrary and widespread on sudden suspensions of entire accounts (with 100% of a creator's revenue going with it) based on capricious criteria as YouTube is. Patreon has been absolutely burning credibility with creators over the last twelve months.

[corobo]

All these anti-Patreon comments in a row and nobody's given any sort of non-weasel wordy statement.

The only thing I can find is that they removed adult content. Presumably because they use Stripe and Paypal to process payments and both of those are very hair-trigger when it comes to payments for adult content, which are deemed "High Risk" by the underlying payment processors.

So essentially Patreon's bannings (unless anyone has any further information) are a technical and customer service issue. They could probably process adult content through a high risk processor but that would mean adult content creators get less money per pledged dollar due to the higher transaction fees

[vetinari]

They banned people, because they were on other end of political spectrum as Patreon management folks are.

[jrkatz]

Which people? Is it when they banned Lauren Southern for actively interfering in rescue operations in the Mediterranean (i.e., trying to get people killed)? Or is it when they banned a leftist/antifa group (IGD) for doxxing, as well as advocating for and publishing instructions for various acts of sabotage?

[vetinari]

"Rescue operation" is a very dishonest label for doing taxi from Libya to Europe for economic migrants. Nowadays, Italy or Malta do the same as Lauren was last year.

[bryanrasmussen]

wait - does on the other end of the political spectrum mean like 'nazis'? Or were they identified as nazis by Patreon but Patreon was totally misunderstanding the nazi-like identifying traits?

[vetinari]

Do you mean "nazis" as "anyone I don't agree with, but I don't have an argument, so let's ad hominem them"?

[bryanrasmussen]

no - I don't know who's been banned, but people are seeming sort of evasive about who has been banned and well, I was thinking who would be likely to be the opposite of Patreon on the political/opinion spectrum and that have had an upswing in social visibility in the last year or so and 'nazis' came to mind.

I certainly don't think all the people I don't agree with are Nazis, although I do think all of them are to some degree wrong.

If you would like I can expand on my definition of nazi but I think it is likely to be a pretty middle of the road European definition of nazi, in the end.

[corobo]

To shorten my previous comment

Who was banned?

[vetinari]

Lauren Southern and Faith Goldy on one side.

It's Going Down on the other. This one was due to pressure after banning Lauren Southern and "don't be hypocrites, if you are going to invent new rules on the spot, at least apply them consistently".

[JackCh]

Sidestepping the issue of whether or not those two women deserved to be banned: that's just two women. As I said earlier, the shades of gray are important here. A handful of people being banned from Patreon versus a great many people getting randomly demonetized on youtube.

Whether or not you've got a political grudge against Patreon, the simple fact of the matter is that Patreon does currently provide a sense of security for creators who feel very insecure on the capricious youtube platform.

[gruez]

Source?

[JackCh]

Frankly I think that's a load of shit. I've not seen or hear of patreon cracking down on anything except for fringe (in an objective sense) political content or pornography.

I'm sure creators of such content are much aggrieved, but compared to the scope of the demonetization on youtube, it amounts to approximately jack shit. How many times has Patreon kicked CodysLab or TheReportOfTheWeek off for non-political non-sexual content? I've not heard of anybody kicked off Patreon for profanity or any similarly chickenshit reasons youtube regularly demonetizes people for.

[eumoria]

any source/information on this? news to me would love to know more