That's telling them, Nemesis, you formidable Greek goddess of vengeance! Have your way with Stripe!
Yes, I already enjoyed Riley's beautiful Remy dancing for the Cinco de Mayo celebration. I wish I could have been there to enjoy it; fortunately, Riley captured the mood and the spectacle for us.
Oh Robin, you're so right. Stripe will never go after large corporations, no matter how shady their business practices are. That would cost a lot of money, in lawyers and revenue. Stripe also won't go after groups large enough to cause them trouble in court and in the public eye.
Stripe will always only go after small communities and individuals who are defenseless, have no lobby, and little money. Lawsuits are always expensive, and usually, the one with more and better lawyers wins. You could barely afford one lawyer, while Stripe would show up with four to eight lawyers and advisors. You would have lost before the trial even started.
Going public is pointless. Who cares about individual fates or the fate of a small group? Nobody. As soon as you post something publicly, Stripe would sue you for defamation and would win.
I'm picking up on something about forming a union to create a larger community. The problem is, you're all individuals, scattered across half the world. That's going to be difficult. You'd also need enough money to find a really good media lawyer willing to take on Stripe's lawyers, which will be even harder.
Stripe is the worst, and they're abusing their power.
Until a viable solution is found, please watch the video by Riley Rose; it lifts the spirits and makes the sky a little bluer.
Totally agree!! You absolutely nailed it! Stripe gets off on trying to make it impossible for individual creators to make a living while never dreaming of going after their cash cows, the big companies. I also don't understand why Stripe processes payment for Ream, when that's full of erotic authors. I hope they haven't been banned but it makes no sense to go after individual creators are certain sites and not others, unless Ream overall is making them a lot of money.
I absolutely loved your video!! I laughed out loud at it :) Nemesis is a very wise goddess! 😊😊😊
Thank you so very much!!! Yep! Ream is another example. The woman who started it did so because she's an erotica author that kept getting banned. But last I saw Stripe hadn't stopped processing payments there, though I haven't checked lately either.
LOL!!! So happy you liked the video! Nemesis is a very wise goddess and totally bad-ass! I love her!!! 😄😄😄
You know, this reeks of some right wing Christian self deny-er halfway down the chain trying to destroy the "temptations" of many small players because as individuals the bosses won't notice their absence. They would notice the absence of bigger revenue sources though, so they can't get away with interfering with larger players.
I can understand the temptation to think that but it doesn't hold up. Aside from the fact Stripe is headquartered in San Francisco (near both Substack and Patreon) and I was raised there and have lived not far from there most my life (still do), so I'd have to wonder where they'd find a rightwing Christian to hire into a position where they could do this (and they'd need cooperation throughout the company), I worked in the industry (and in Silicon Valley) and that's just not how these companies operate.
What Stripe is doing to the creators here on Substack isn't the result of some underling[s] "going rogue" and trying to find and ban us. Such a "rogue" operation opens up Stripe to significant legal risk, because people will notice and have noticed. More could notice, especially if they continue as they have been. Another commenter pointed out that Stripe has already had to defend itself from charges it's homophobic.
But what I think is more important, is that the people behind all of this really want us to look everywhere but where we should. They want us to lay down a smokescreen, organize ourselves into a circular firing squad and then pop off into the smoke at the "them" (whatever "them" we disagree with) we assume are on the other side, while they stand back and chuckle. It's an age-old strategy and it often works. If we're wise, we'll resist it.
If you're curious about the history behind all this, I laid it out in these two posts:
Down with censorship
That's telling them, Nemesis, you formidable Greek goddess of vengeance! Have your way with Stripe!
Yes, I already enjoyed Riley's beautiful Remy dancing for the Cinco de Mayo celebration. I wish I could have been there to enjoy it; fortunately, Riley captured the mood and the spectacle for us.
Oh Robin, you're so right. Stripe will never go after large corporations, no matter how shady their business practices are. That would cost a lot of money, in lawyers and revenue. Stripe also won't go after groups large enough to cause them trouble in court and in the public eye.
Stripe will always only go after small communities and individuals who are defenseless, have no lobby, and little money. Lawsuits are always expensive, and usually, the one with more and better lawyers wins. You could barely afford one lawyer, while Stripe would show up with four to eight lawyers and advisors. You would have lost before the trial even started.
Going public is pointless. Who cares about individual fates or the fate of a small group? Nobody. As soon as you post something publicly, Stripe would sue you for defamation and would win.
I'm picking up on something about forming a union to create a larger community. The problem is, you're all individuals, scattered across half the world. That's going to be difficult. You'd also need enough money to find a really good media lawyer willing to take on Stripe's lawyers, which will be even harder.
Stripe is the worst, and they're abusing their power.
Until a viable solution is found, please watch the video by Riley Rose; it lifts the spirits and makes the sky a little bluer.
Exactly. As for viable solutions, the search is on. No idea what we'll find but we're looking...
Thank you for everything! You're awesome!!!
Oh, and thanks so much for linking to my new Remy video! I super-appreciate it and glad you like it so much!!
Oh! Of course!!! It's a super-awesome video!!! Just what we need after all this!!! 😄😄😄
Thank you so very much for posting it!!! 😊😄😀
Yay!! I'm glad it could bring some fun and sexiness to people :)
Totally agree!! You absolutely nailed it! Stripe gets off on trying to make it impossible for individual creators to make a living while never dreaming of going after their cash cows, the big companies. I also don't understand why Stripe processes payment for Ream, when that's full of erotic authors. I hope they haven't been banned but it makes no sense to go after individual creators are certain sites and not others, unless Ream overall is making them a lot of money.
I absolutely loved your video!! I laughed out loud at it :) Nemesis is a very wise goddess! 😊😊😊
Thank you so very much!!! Yep! Ream is another example. The woman who started it did so because she's an erotica author that kept getting banned. But last I saw Stripe hadn't stopped processing payments there, though I haven't checked lately either.
LOL!!! So happy you liked the video! Nemesis is a very wise goddess and totally bad-ass! I love her!!! 😄😄😄
You know, this reeks of some right wing Christian self deny-er halfway down the chain trying to destroy the "temptations" of many small players because as individuals the bosses won't notice their absence. They would notice the absence of bigger revenue sources though, so they can't get away with interfering with larger players.
I can understand the temptation to think that but it doesn't hold up. Aside from the fact Stripe is headquartered in San Francisco (near both Substack and Patreon) and I was raised there and have lived not far from there most my life (still do), so I'd have to wonder where they'd find a rightwing Christian to hire into a position where they could do this (and they'd need cooperation throughout the company), I worked in the industry (and in Silicon Valley) and that's just not how these companies operate.
What Stripe is doing to the creators here on Substack isn't the result of some underling[s] "going rogue" and trying to find and ban us. Such a "rogue" operation opens up Stripe to significant legal risk, because people will notice and have noticed. More could notice, especially if they continue as they have been. Another commenter pointed out that Stripe has already had to defend itself from charges it's homophobic.
But what I think is more important, is that the people behind all of this really want us to look everywhere but where we should. They want us to lay down a smokescreen, organize ourselves into a circular firing squad and then pop off into the smoke at the "them" (whatever "them" we disagree with) we assume are on the other side, while they stand back and chuckle. It's an age-old strategy and it often works. If we're wise, we'll resist it.
If you're curious about the history behind all this, I laid it out in these two posts:
https://rlawrence101.substack.com/p/houston-we-have-a-problem
https://rlawrence101.substack.com/p/houston-we-have-a-problem-update