{"id":1397273,"date":"2022-03-23T21:14:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T01:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1397273"},"modified":"2022-03-23T21:14:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T01:14:56","slug":"podcaster-josh-lekach-urges-creators-to-leave-far-left-patreon-after-platform-wipes-out-his-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/podcaster-josh-lekach-urges-creators-to-leave-far-left-patreon-after-platform-wipes-out-his-income\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcaster Josh Lekach Urges Creators to Leave Far-left Patreon After Platform Wipes Out His Income"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpodcaster-josh-lekach-urges-creators-to-leave-far-left-patreon-after-platform-wipes-out-his-income%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1397273&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Josh Lekach, host of the <a href=\"https:\/\/wrongop.gumroad.com\/\"><em>Wrong Opinion<\/em><\/a>\u00a0podcast<em>\u00a0<\/em>urged fellow creators to leave Patreon for free speech-friendly alternatives after the left-wing funding platform wiped out his stream of income with a permanent blacklisting.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wrong Opinion\u00a0<\/em>has featured a number of prominent Republicans as guests in the past, including retired Gen. Michael Flynn, former Trump advisor Peter Navarro, and congressional candidate Joe Kent.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Patreon, which has banned numerous other conservative creators in the past, kicked Lekach off its platform after he appeared on <em>The American Journal<\/em> with Harrison Smith, a show on InfoWars.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his ban, Lekach had 725 supporters on Patreon, a major source of income.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/givesendgo.com\/WRONGOP\">Lekach has since set up a fund on GiveSendGo<\/a>, the platform famous for hosting successful fundraisers for Kyle Rittenhouse and the Canadian truckers\u2019 convoy after they were banned on other funding platforms.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The podcaster has also <a href=\"https:\/\/wrongop.gumroad.com\/\">set up a page for supporters to subscribe at Gumroad<\/a>, and a Bitcoin address for direct crypto donations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCREATORS!\u00a0Don\u2019t trust\u00a0Patreon\u00a0with your income,\u201d wrote Lekach on Twitter. \u201cThey\u2019ll wipe it out in a second.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CREATORS!<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t trust <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Patreon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Patreon<\/a> with your income!<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll wipe it out in a second!<\/p>\n<p>I just made a GumRoad account<\/p>\n<p>Going to spruce it up, but you can subscribe to WRONG OPINION NOW!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NLzW3BpJWL\">https:\/\/t.co\/NLzW3BpJWL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83c\udf34 Josh Lekach \ud83c\udf34 (@JoshLekach) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshLekach\/status\/1506362299262685185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a message to Lekach, Patreon accused him of violating its \u201ccommunity guidelines on hate speech,\u201d although the platform did not specify what item of content in Lekach\u2019s podcasts violated the rules.<\/p>\n<p>Patreon has been embroiled in multiple censorship controversies in the past. In 2018, the funding platform experienced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2018\/12\/22\/patreon-censorship-causes-heavy-losses-for-creators-as-users-flee-site\/\">major boycott of both creators<\/a> and donors after it censored the popular YouTuber Carl Benjamin, also known as Sargon of Akkad.<\/p>\n<p>The ban resulted in several major users of the platform, including Sam Harris, closing their accounts. Free speech-friendly alternatives to Patreon, such as Locals and SubscribeStar have since experienced significant growth.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.\u00a0He is the author of\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Lekach, host of the Wrong Opinion\u00a0podcast\u00a0urged fellow creators to leave Patreon for free speech-friendly alternatives after the left-wing funding platform wiped out his stream of income with a permanent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}