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Calls to boycott tech company Stripe after CEO posts about recent visit to Israel (www.middleeasteye.net)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Supporters of Palestine have called to boycott the payment platform Stripe after its CEO and co-founder Patrick Collison - an Irish-American billionaire who has advocated for Palestinians in the past - posted on social media on Wednesday about his run on the beach in Tel Aviv and how it was "great" to be back.

Many responded to his post on X by pointing out that he was only thirty minutes away from the Gaza Strip. Conservative estimates say nearly 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's war on Gaza and two million have been under constant Israeli aggression as they fight what UN experts have called "'deliberate starvation".

Some drew comparisons to the Academy Award-winning film, Zone of Interest, which depicts the everyday lives of Germans who lived next to the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War Two.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The majority of people who use stripe probably dont even know it, good luck boycotting that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Lol yeah. Stripe is B2B and working with billing code is the worst trifecta of difficult, boring and very important. No company is swapping out for the Palestinians.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Reminiscent of "Travellers of the Third Reich" by Julia Boyd

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

ok. what should we use instead? paypal?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Trocador.app, Coingate, etc.. They have a feature called AnonPay. Ik it's for crypto, but still.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

these only handle crypto. they're not a replacement for stripe, and saying that it is is a very large stretch. stripe is used for handling fiat payments, and there's a reason even Liberapay only supports that and Paypal: because all others are worse or questionable.

such services (recurring payment services) can't really make use of crypto right now anyway, can they? they would either need to store your keys, or create a specialized wallet program and stop being a service, but the latter would also remove any possible transparency that the donation receiver may want to provide