January 2021 Deplatforms

January 23, 2021: Far-right organizer Ali Alexander’s StopThe Steal has been kicked off MailBluster, the platform they switched to after being kicked off EmailOctopus the week of the coup.

January 19, 2021: After a day-long call-in campaign pressuring EpicPay to stop processing payments from Nick Fuentes, his site is “under maintenance,” after having presumably lost their payment processor.

January 18, 2021: The Oath Keepers, a far-right militia involved in the January 6 storming of the Capitol Building, have been banned from using GetResponse, an email marketing service.

January 15, 2021: TheThreePercenters.org was shut down by Wix following an online activist campaign.

January 13, 2021: Ex-Rise Above Movement/Identity Evropa member (and Atascadero Monolith toppler) Ryan Sanchez’s “CultureWarCriminal” streaming channel is banned from DLive.

January 12, 2021: Two hours after contacting EmailOctopus, the company shuts down Nick Fuentes’ email service.

January 8, 2021: Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes is permanently banned from DLive, where he had been earning a six-figure salary via livestream donations, following an online campaign.

In a blog post, DLive announces that Fuentes’ channel was one of seven on the service that “were found to be inciting violent and illegal activities.”

January 7, 2021: Following an online campaign from a number of groups, PayPal drops GiveSendGo entirely after finding out the site has been used to raise more than $300,000 for the Proud Boys, including fundraising to send hate group members to DC for the January 6 protests. 

Stripe pressures GiveSendGo into removing “donate” buttons for far-right campaigns.