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FreeStartr, created by Chuck C. Johnson (one of the 1st people permabanned on Twitter), bills itself as "the world’s first comprehensive crowdfunding platform with an absolute free speech guarantee"

FreeStartr’s mission is to make sure that no one is ever unable to raise money for a project — creative, charitable, journalistic, social or otherwise — because they were banned, censored, shut down, or demonetized on other Internet platforms for exercising their right to free speech under the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.

tl;dr they're like Patreon except they won't cancel your account for wrongthink.

Back in June, payment processor Stripe refused to process their payment: https://web.archive.org/web/20180619032840/https://freestartr.com/stripe-de-platformed-freestartr/

Chuck wrote a lengthy blog about it here: http://archive.fo/d22xW

Former Rebel Media reporter Faith Goldy was banned from PayPal the other other day (she was already banned from Patreon) & was left with FreeStartr for crowdfunding. However she reported that PayPal not only banned her, but the entire FreeStartr site as well: http://archive.fo/tLNvO

CRACKDOWN: I have just been informed by the company that Freestartr's payment platforms (PayPal & Stripe) have de-platformed them completely. This was my last financial window, now closed. About to hop on to Periscope…Gonna needa beer for this one.

You can watch her Periscope here: https://www.pscp.tv/w/1vAxRERYqqVJl

And her YouTube video about the PayPal ban here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGSuCVRGQic

So not only do you have to create an alternative to Patreon, but now you also have to create your own financial backbone platform as well.