Yes, we'd like Stripe to be available to as broad a set of users as possible. Restrictions on businesses ought to be malleable and we need to have the capacity to adapt as the world around us changes.
We also work with our partners to relax or remove unnecessary restrictions where we can. Being overly restrictive towards legitimate businesses flies in the face of growing the GDP of the internet—it's a precondition for us to operate. A small component of that is being reactive: seeing where we make mistakes and noticing where our processes need to be adapted. (As we saw today with essay mills!)
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If it weren't for your intervention would Stripe have made this correction through its regular processes?
Yes, we'd like Stripe to be available to as broad a set of users as possible. Restrictions on businesses ought to be malleable and we need to have the capacity to adapt as the world around us changes.
We also work with our partners to relax or remove unnecessary restrictions where we can. Being overly restrictive towards legitimate businesses flies in the face of growing the GDP of the internet—it's a precondition for us to operate. A small component of that is being reactive: seeing where we make mistakes and noticing where our processes need to be adapted. (As we saw today with essay mills!)