On December 14, James Harr, the owner of an online store called ComradeWorkwear, announced on social media that he planned to sell a deck of “Most Wanted CEO” playing cards, satirizing the infamous “Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards” introduced by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency in 2003.
Instagram disabled the ComradeWorkwear account for “not following community standards,” with no further information provided. Harr’s personal account was also banned.
On December 20, PayPal informed Harr it could no longer continue processing payments for ComradeWorkwear, with no information about why. Shopify informed Harr that his store was selling “offensive content,” and his Shopify and Apple Pay accounts would both be disabled. In a follow-up email, Shopify told Harr the decision to close his account “was made by our banking partners who power the payment gateway.”
This guy has some solid takes too. He’s on red book now as well as tiktok
In America, political dissidents are barred from accessing essential financial systemsAhahahahahaaha they put this up now
A thousand words left unsaid that tell the whole story. That’s
The WOKE LeFT controlling Instagram won’t even let an honest businessman do a recruitment campaign, marketing the most wanted CEOs to corporations. They cancelled headhunting.
here we see how fReE sPeEcH works in practice
The American liberal, faced with this reality, tends to concede that truth is in fact drowned out by a relentless tide of spin and propaganda. Their next move is always predictable, however. It’s another lesson dutifully drilled into them in their youth: “At least we can dissent, however unpopular and ineffectual!” The reality, of course, is that such dissent is tolerated to the extent that it is unpopular.
Big-shot TV host Phil Donahue demonstrated that challenging imperial marching orders in the context of the invasion of Iraq was career suicide, when a leaked memo clearly explained he was fired in 2003 because he’d be a “difficult public face for NBC in a time of war.” [5] The fate of journalists unprotected by such wealth or celebrity is darker and sadder. Ramsey Orta, whose footage of Eric Garner pleading “I can’t breathe!” to NYPD cops choking him to death went viral, was rewarded for his impactful citizen journalism by having his family targeted by the cops, fast-tracked to prison for unrelated crimes, and fed rat poison while in there. [6] The only casualty of the spectacular “Panama Papers” leak was Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist who led the investigation, who was assassinated with a car-bomb near her home in Malta. [7] Then there’s the well-publicized cases of Assange, Snowden, Manning, etc. That said, I tend think to such lists are somewhat unnecessary since, ultimately, most honest people confess that they self-censor on social media for fear of consequences. (Do you?)
In other words, the status quo in the West is basically as follows: you can say whatever you want, so long as it doesn’t actually have any effect.
It’s always mindblowing how quickly the bourgeoisie close ranks even for petty shit like this.
