Financial mega-firm Visa has banned Gab, its founder, and his family from electronic payment services now and in the future. Gab is a free-speech alternative to Twitter used by many Trump followers. As Gab founder Andrew Torba explained: “We were told this week that not only is Gab blacklisted by Visa as a business, but my personal name, phone number, address, and more are all also blacklisted by Visa. If I wanted to leave Gab tomorrow (something that isn’t going to happen) and start a lemonade stand, I wouldn’t be able to obtain merchant processing for it.
“Simply because my name is Andrew Torba.