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by drivingmenuts 2758 days ago
> What are the obvious reasons?

Really?

OK, how about this: he's a polarizing nutcase who has adopted controversial and unsupportable standings on several calamitous events in the past two decades.

Most people that see a mainstream business supporting him assume that business adopts those same ideas, rightly or wrongly. So, the perception of supporting Alex Jones can be incredibly damaging to the reputation of a business.

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I m sure paypal or patreon are doing business with many criminals or even terrorists who are unknown. The reason is the bad PR and negative publicity they get from these channels.
So you think that accidentally supporting criminals and terrorists is just as bad as intentionally supporting criminals and terrorists?