04/01/2024

Building a Parallel Economy

How extremists are trying to build a new one

Entrepreneurs and influencers from across a spectrum of conspiracist and religious communities gathered in Las Vegas in March to discuss building an "uncancellable" future together.

But the conference almost didn't happen. A few weeks before the RePlatform conference was scheduled to begin, the event organizers lost access to their money from ticket sales. Their payment processor, Stripe, had frozen their account.

"Stripe just said, 'well, we're going to hold 70 percent.' And what they do is they say, 'we'll give it back to you after the show,'" speaker Dan Eddy told the audience from the Vegas stage.

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