RESPONSE TO LOCALS REGARDING INVASION OF PRIVACY UNDER THE GUISE OF FOREIGN-BASED SAFE HARBOR.
23 FEB 2022

@LocalsSupport Dear Locals -

Find a different payment processor - one that does not harvest the social security numbers of American citizens. Surely, you can do this. I am sure it isn't just Americans who use Locals. There is no rational and reasonable basis for Locals to partner with social security harvesters, especially when the harvester is a seemingly private agency that still relies on social security numbers 'for identification purposes'.

Locals and other organizations have been abounding lately promising that censorship will not occur. However, the social security harvesters lost all credibility the moment the banks decided to side with communists and cease the bank accounts of Canadians. That means neither Stripe, nor Payoneer, nor any 'payment processor' that relies on social security numbers in order to conduct transactions are immune from the overt tyrannical influence of the freaks who claim to be in power and are destroying Western Civilization while gargoyling on top of leadership positions. When I find that it appears all of these organizations I am encountering are operated by citizens of Israel, foreign agents who have no business having access to social security numbers, well, that is a problem. If someone supports my Locals site and the only way I can get the money is if first Celtic Bank approves, then Stripe approves, then Israel approves, then whoever is in some government office approves, then the Central Banks approve, then Locals approves, and then I may only get it if and only if my money is credited to Local's in-house electronic IOU 'store credits' or 'coins', then I have zero control over my money, and neither does my supporter have control over the money, and we end up in the same darned situation Go Fund Me and TD Bank puts people in if we, for example, criticize or support those who protest against Trudeau, Biden, Trump, or Jews. Are you beginning to comprehend the PRO-SEMITIC approach that I am taking here?

Here is what you state in your response:

‘Stripe is a 3rd party vendor that we use to process subscriptions and payments. If you want to create a community on Locals and get paid, you'll need to connect it to Stripe.
Your private information is kept secure by Stripe and Locals doesn’t retain it.’
See Full Response from Locals below.

There are three issues with your response: process marriage, collusion, and product marriage.

First – PROCESS MARRIAGE - THE MARRIAGE OF PAYMENTS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS TO DRAGNET AND HARVEST SUPPORTERS.
The vendor is used to process subscriptions and payments, but even in the web presence features you provide to content providers, you offer two notable pages: a Landing Page, and a Landing Support page.

Now the Landing Page invites the viewer to subscribe to Locals, or support the content provider (off screen at the bottom of the page),

However, the Landing Support page invites the viewer to ‘subscribe’ or give a one-time payment. It is not clear if a viewer who subscribes from the Landing Support page would be subscribing to Locals in general or specifically to the content provider’s section of Locals. But if the only way to give the money is to divulge the social security number, then that is a very telling thing. Rational thinking Americans do not divulge their social security numbers to offer money to strangers they only know based on content produced on the Internet, and again, it cannot be that only American citizens and subscribiers using Locals either as viewers, supporters, or content providers. Therefore, there must be some other way, or, in the alternative, every single person on Locals are members of the group such as, say Sayanim, or are American citizen victims of it who are foolish enough to get onboard and divulge social security numbers. Wow. Talk about a spy ring!

Second – COLLUSION - TALKING FOR STRIPE.
Locals insists Stripe is a ‘3rd party’, but Locals seek to assure me that my ‘private information is kept secure’ not even by Celtic Bank, but by Stripe.
Thank you for confirming to me that the keeper and bearer of my social security number then becomes not a bank but this ‘payment processor’ thing called Stripe. Now the question becomes, which assassin do you intend to give my social security number to?

In reality, Celtic Bank does not need my social security number to process a payment intended for me, and neither should Stripe, or any other payment processor. In reality, I should not be compelled to give my social security number to any financial institution at all, especially a foreign one. Stripe has offices in both San Francisco and Dublin. Parts of San Francisco are arguably Mexican enclaves, and Dublin is not the United States. Is Ireland willing to give me an Irish social security number if I continue to do business with Stripe under the lure of getting my money? What about the Governor of the Bank of England? I am sure he can make things happen, don’t you? I mean, as an American Citizen, when did I concede to those non-citizens keeping and bearing my American issued social security or tax identification number? I hope to God, that Locals do not also grab the social security numbers of unwitting supporters of their non-Sayanin subscribing content providers.

But back to this situation of Locals speaking on behalf of 3rd party Inc., doesn’t that make Locals at least in collusion with Stripe to keep and bear social security numbers. So no, Locals is Stripe and Strip is Locals, and clandestine behind the scene operations of harvesting social security numbers of American Citizens is the tie that binds.

Third – PRODUCT MARRIAGE
Again, zeroing on on your assertion,

‘If you want to create a community on Locals and get paid, you'll need to connect it to Stripe.’,

There are two products that you identify here: one being to be able to ‘create a community’ and the other ‘getting paid’.
Both require me to sign up on Stripe and Stripe requires me to divulge my social security number.
I have never heard of anyone having to provide a social security number in order to create a community, or in this case a communisti, and,
I should not have to divulge my social security to a payment processor in order to obtain the monetary funds that another decides to advance to me, especially if the amount is less than the threshold for addressing under constitutional jurisprudence treated disputes.

In summary, what I detect here is a cadre of rising social media sites preying on the politically disenfranchised in the United States of America, promising to remain in allegiance to the virtues of freedom of speech, right to assemble, and civil discourse. Upon being lured in, the leader of each lured group, the ‘content provider/ wishing to create a community on such platforms, are further lured in by promises of payment processing to obtain funds. In truth however, the situation turns on its head when the ‘payment process’ not the bank, not the credit card company, and not the social media platform, but the payment processor, demands the American citizen or subject to divulge his or her social security number in order to be availed the products and or services of the social media platform. The social media platform in this case, Locals, attempts to assure the observer – content provider, that the payment processor keeps and bears to social security number, for the citizen’s own good – for identification purposes. However, the citizen is not allowed to choose the payment processor, choose the bank, or choose the method for payments received. Furthermore, unlike Payoneer which is very blatant with their bravo sierra demand for social security number, while not exactly offering any credit card or debit card from a duly establish financial institution (such as mastercard) in return, the pre-selected payment processor here – selected by Locals – dangles the promise of some kind of debit or ATM friendly card to the nescient content provider, only to then say, yeah – we need the social security number – and it is always for identification purposes. However there is no basis whatsoever at all for the social media platform, payment processor, or bank to be involved in the business between the Social Security Administration and the content provider. To make matters worse, in looking into all of these relatively new operators of civil discourse platforms on the Internet, we discover that the leaders of the platforms, and the payment processors appear to be a very tight-knit group of persons holding citizenship in Israel. The blatant attempt to obtain America Social Security Numbers in this way alerts me that something is wrong, because it is nether appropriate to be required to divulge social security numbers to third parties, nor is it appropriate for persons who are not citizens of the United States of America to possess, keep, and, or bear such specific information on individual American Citizens: Name, Date of Birth, Social Security Number, just to be able to engage civil discourse anyway. The Constitution of the United States of America did not imply that the only way the citizen of the union can maintain freedom of speech is under the protection of any foreigner, and in this case, Jews.

That simply does not work.

/ s / Radcliffe Lewis

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Full Response from Locals below.

Hi,

Stripe is a 3rd party vendor that we use to process subscriptions payments. If you want to create a community on Locals and get paid, you'll need to connect it to Stripe.

Your private information is kept secure by Stripe and Locals doesn't retain it. You can refer to this help article on how to get set up on Stripe and connect it to your Locals community:

https://support.locals.com/en/article/how-do-i-set-up-my-stripe-account-to-get-paid-on-locals-18haogk/

If you've already created a Stripe account but don't want to use it, refer to this help article to delete it:

https://support.stripe.com/questions/close-a-stripe-account

If you would like to delete your Locals community, please email [email protected] with the Subject: Delete Community.

Once we have deleted your community, this action cannot be reversed.