Maybe not. We might be shocked that people in Europe in the past got tortured or executed for heresy and apostasy, but we're not really confused by it: if your words undermine the creeds that hold up the power structure, you are punished. It's not complicated.
One does not simply use a payment processor directly. Stripe and PayPal both deplatformed within a week the Patreon alternative that the guy went to after being kicked off Patreon (SubscribeStar). Hatreon was also deplatformed by their payment processor, as noted below. In another recent instance, MasterCard demanded that Patreon kick off another person for political reasons [1]. Social network Gab is now accepting USD payments only by mailed check for their premium tier. Of course, the pioneer modern instance of being financially deplatformed was Wikileaks, who was deplatformed by both Visa and MasterCard for political reasons. I've gained a new respect for Bitcoin from this incident. If you can't digitally send USD to another person to do legal things, USD has a problem.
> "MasterCard demanded that Patreon kick off another person for political reasons."
If true that's disturbing. At a certain point you have to wonder if we're getting close to the spirit of Marsh v. Alabama (e.g the constitutionality of restricting speech in towns that are privately owned by corporations.)
The card would need to get deals with banks and dealers, which it wouldn't get. So they would need to create their own banks as well, and then they would need to construct all supporting services for those banks as well...
The first time I saw an ad that was targeted to me on Facebook based on browsing I had done elsewhere, I deleted Facebook within a month and never used it again.
