My take on the situation is this: internet-based communities can be analogized roughly to a privately-owned forum/market. Before I get into specifics, I realize that analogies are never 100% accurate, but I think they can help get the point across.
A business, Patreon, buys a building and sets up shop. They open booths for people to setup shop in and solicit funding for their projects. The general public can walk through the booths and choose who to support. This being a privately-owned business, and in their private property (building -> website or webserver), they reserve the right to deny entry to whomever they wish.
If I were a business owner, I would not want one of those booths to be occupied by someone reciting hate speech and scaring off other patrons (pun not intended, patron in the traditional sense) from other booths and from my business as a whole.
It is entirely possible, and in this day and age fairly easy, for those who got banned from Patreon to set up their own website hosted on their own servers in order to spread their message. I wouldn't say 'go to another platform' because the same thing would happen again. I would say 'make your own platform/website/blog'. You can set up agreements with Paypal or many other places to solicit funds. At this point, with Net Neutrality and ISPs not being able to ban you because they should be a public utility, you can not be removed from speaking how you wish. You can setup your own server easily to do this.
Caveats: net neutrality is an ideal in this scenario, since the FCC removed it. I am not 100% sure on payment providers, but I am sure there is a way to solicit funds without them in some way.
A business, Patreon, buys a building and sets up shop. They open booths for people to setup shop in and solicit funding for their projects. The general public can walk through the booths and choose who to support. This being a privately-owned business, and in their private property (building -> website or webserver), they reserve the right to deny entry to whomever they wish.
If I were a business owner, I would not want one of those booths to be occupied by someone reciting hate speech and scaring off other patrons (pun not intended, patron in the traditional sense) from other booths and from my business as a whole.
It is entirely possible, and in this day and age fairly easy, for those who got banned from Patreon to set up their own website hosted on their own servers in order to spread their message. I wouldn't say 'go to another platform' because the same thing would happen again. I would say 'make your own platform/website/blog'. You can set up agreements with Paypal or many other places to solicit funds. At this point, with Net Neutrality and ISPs not being able to ban you because they should be a public utility, you can not be removed from speaking how you wish. You can setup your own server easily to do this.
Caveats: net neutrality is an ideal in this scenario, since the FCC removed it. I am not 100% sure on payment providers, but I am sure there is a way to solicit funds without them in some way.