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jbschirtzs··on Goodbye, MIT
When we lose the power to express our thoughts from a differing perspective, we have lost our powers of free speech. Facts are facts. They do not care whether we like them or not.
jbschirtzs··on More details about the October 4 outage
"The Devil's Backbone"
jbschirtzs··on Stripe launched 10 years ago today
Well I am glad you mentioned that, because my old site used donorbox which then WENT into stripe, so it was apples to apples.
jbschirtzs··on Stripe launched 10 years ago today
So let me get this straight--if I freeze your bank account on the basis on what you believe and blow some kind of smoke about why I actually froze the account--you are going to be extremely tactful in that situation?

Given the absurdity of the situation, I was tactful.

jbschirtzs··on Stripe launched 10 years ago today
It was another site that used Stripe as a payment processor for used books that donated the proceeds into the church. The site changed because after several years of this kind of behavior from Stripe and elsewhere, I dissolved the LLC that formed it. It is a kind of religious discrimination.(unless you buy Stripe's weird crowd sourcing explanation and if you do, I've got a swamp I'd like to sell you to build a house on)

I am quite cognizant of what the Gestapo did. They discriminated slowly but surely on the basis of the religious identify of people who were Jewish. Our church was Messianic Jewish as was indicated on the site. Some of our members had, in fact, relatives in the Holocaust.

jbschirtzs··on Stripe launched 10 years ago today
Stripe is the processor here: https://givebutter.com/blog/free-fundraising-sites

I fail to see how they might have gotten confused. They clearly allow fundraising or else they wouldn't be a partner with givebutter.

jbschirtzs··on Stripe launched 10 years ago today
If they had said it isn't worth doing business with you say, four years ago, your point might persuade me.

As to my communication style, you are entitled to your opinion. I won't cut your credit card off because you voiced it.

jbschirtzs··on Stripe launched 10 years ago today
I am very sorry to hear that because of this: https://www.jbschirtzinger.com/post/stripe/

I don't think Stripe deserves to be a major player since they are acting like the Gestapo.

jbschirtzs··on Stripe banned us for payment disputes but we never had a single dispute
If you have a more rational explanation for all the craziness happening, I'm all ears, pal.
jbschirtzs··on Stripe banned us for payment disputes but we never had a single dispute
See my reply elsewhere on this post if you really want to understand what you here suggest.
jbschirtzs··on Stripe banned us for payment disputes but we never had a single dispute
I had the same thing happen to our church. I do not believe this is an "Accident". You can read the blow by blow at https://www.jbschirtzinger.com/post/stripe/

You can see very clearly that I also thought this was an automated issue, but turned out not to be.