Credit Card Processors Response

I have been trying to find an online credit card processor to process payments for ads on my firearm blog site and thought I would ask my processor who provides my in person transactions at my main business. I read the terms and in the terms they say you cannot sell Assault weapons, military grade weapons and related accessories and another says something about you cannot have hate speech on the site. (Don’t get me started on the assault wording) ha ha I don’t like that they restrict firearm sales certainly but when they use terms like assault weapons simply shows lack of knowledge on the subject. Below are the reasons they gave NOT to allow us to use their service for the firearm sites credit card processing. The reasons given are frankly shocking. I don’t get surprised often but this shocked me!

Their comments:

List of URLs that lead to content that may be questionable- doesn’t look/sound like anything immediately inflammatory, but as we’d discussed due to some of the content (ar15 especially), and more importantly to the fact their users content is essentially unmonitored, could prove to be an issue. 

– https://bigredsfirearms.com/?s=ar15 (includes approx 22 search results on forum re: AR15’s)

– https://bigredsfirearms.com/cpp79-hate-crimes-never-tasted-so-good/ (podcast Rob referred to, “Hate Crimes Never Tasted so Good.”) Do yourself a favor and just listen to the intro music. I listened to parts of the podcast and found the reference and the title came from a joke on Quebec and their pride in poutine. They joked that if crime is being committed without also eating poutine at the same time, Quebec law enforcement would instantly consider it a ‘hate crime’. 

– https://bigredsfirearms.com/goa-media-demonizes-apparent-self-defender-kyle-rittenhouse/ (article: Defending/lauding vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse who shot and killed unarmed protestors in Wisconsin)  published August 27, 2020 (updated February 26, 2021) Published by bigredsfirearms

– https://bigredsfirearms.com/trump-is-standing-for-your-right-to-self-defense/ And another related, reinforcing the opinion and endorsing Trump   

So if I am reading the responses correctly, you cannot mention AR15s, assuming they think they are named Assault Rifle 15. Not allowed to mention Donald Trump or promote self defence laws which are a human right not something that we are granted. I am pretty sure they would grab a gun, bat, or anything else they could if they or their family were attacked and be very thankful for having access to these items. Their views on these things would change in less than a second. You cannot always get to a phone and wait for the police to arrive, attacks happen spur of the moment most of the time, you would have to defend yourself with any measure needed to stop the attack just as EVERY animal and assume every human would do to protect their family and themselves. I also assume your not allowed to joke any longer, they literally say “They joked that if crime is being committed without also eating poutine at the same time, Quebec law enforcement would instantly consider it a ‘hate crime” a joke is a joke.

In the end this kind of thing causes the exact issue these types of people say they want to stop. DIVISION among all of us. This causes devision. You don’t have to agree with each other all the time but trying to sensor ones views is simply wrong. You can disagree about self defence, you can choose to lay on the ground and be assaulted… if you wish but telling others or trying to force others to do the same is not right. You can choose to not like someone like Trump, but banning the use of your services because someone likes him or even talks about him is wrong. Telling someone they cannot talk about AR15s is just wrong. (I am sure if it was articles/comments against AR15s they wouldn’t have an issue) I told them they can post comments on anything related to these topics on my site, they can even tell me they are against all of the above and I would not remove it. You know why, because I believe in freedom of speech and even when I cannot understand their opinion I would not try and prevent them. Same with customers who purchase from my other business, I know MANY that I totally disagree with on these issues, but you bet I take their business with a smile and don’t give them any less quality of service because of it! It’s not a business place to be the Shepard for the world. As long as it’s legal, you should be good to go.

They also seem to have an issue with us monitoring the site for hate speech and wanted a policy put in place. I don’t mind that so much but they could not show me any hate speech on the site, they couldn’t even define what they consider hate speech. If the above was their way of saying what hate speech is they are WAY OFF BASE. Talking about Trump, self defence, guns, political comments is NOT hate speech.

Regardless if they have the right to deny us over this or not it caught me off guard as I somewhat expected to be denied because of the firearm content. But the reasons above shocked me as they are baseless and frankly unreasonable. Let us know what you think below.

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