PayPal Purge: A Precursor to a United States Social Credit System? - Jody Bruchon
Channel: Jody Bruchon
Date: 2019-01-03

I made a video about the #PatreonPurge and how we need a Constitutional amendment (FIPNA) to force financial service platforms of all sorts to be neutral, but a tweet I saw brought a chill upon my heart. What if you're being treated in a hospital and the hospital won't give you the anti-cancer treatment you need to survive because the maker of the medicine has blacklisted you from receiving their products because they don't like your political beliefs, or because the outrage mob got to them? At first, it sounded ludicrous, but then the second tweet solidified the disgust I felt: "this ban is nationwide, but it's okay because it's a private company and not the government doing it!"

Original FIPNA video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HunYbThClW8

I've been finding lots of YouTube comments lately on the Patreon/SubscribeStar purge/banning incidents that mention China's social credit system. I wrote them off as conspiracy theorists or political junkies having fun with conspiracy theories that are far-fetched and extremely unlikely, but I'm now convinced that they've got an actual point. What if the United States is headed towards "social credit," but it's enforced by private corporations instead of by the government? The USA says a corporation has the rights of a person and has the freedoms of a person as a result, but should they? What if not just banks and payment networks, but also mechanics, landlords, plumbers, and hotels blacklisted you for your political expressions? What if it trickled down to grocery stores, gas stations, and restaurants?

Are we on the way to a society where, for some people, everyone really is out to get them? Are we no different than China in the end? I don't attempt to answer these questions in this video, but they absolutely need to be asked.

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