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New PayPal Policy Lets Them Pull $2500 From Users Accounts If They Promote ‘Misinformation
Posted on 10/8/22 at 9:44 am
Posted on 10/8/22 at 9:44 am
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A new policy update from PayPal will permit the firm to sanction users who advance purported “misinformation” or present risks to user “wellbeing.”
The financial services company, which has repeatedly deplatformed organizations and individual commentators for their political views, will expand its “existing list of prohibited activities” on November 3. Among the changes are prohibitions on “the sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content, or materials” that “promote misinformation” or “present a risk to user safety or wellbeing.” Users are also barred from “the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory.”
The company’s current acceptable use policy does not mention such activities. The Daily Wire reached out to PayPal for definitions of the added terms, although no response was received in time for publication.
Deliberations will be made at the “sole discretion” of PayPal and may subject the user to “damages” — including the removal of $2,500 “debited directly from your PayPal account.” The company’s user agreement contains a provision in which account holders acknowledge that the figure is “presently a reasonable minimum estimate of PayPal’s actual damages” due to the administrative cost of tracking violations and damage to the company’s reputation.
“Under existing law, PayPal has the ability as a private company to implement this type of viewpoint-discriminatory policy,” Aaron Terr, a senior program officer at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, explained to The Daily Wire. “Whatever motivation PayPal has for establishing these vague new categories of prohibited expression, they will almost certainly have a severe chilling effect on users’ speech. As is often the case with ill-defined and viewpoint-discriminatory speech codes, those with unpopular or minority viewpoints will likely bear the brunt of these restrictions.”
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Posted on 10/8/22 at 9:48 am to stout
"Be woke or go broke" seems to be the idea here.
Posted on 10/8/22 at 9:48 am to stout
Decoupling my paypal as we speak!
Posted on 10/8/22 at 9:48 am to tiggerthetooth
The start of social credit system
Posted on 10/8/22 at 9:49 am to stout
PayPal is run by marxists. They froze $2000 of my funds for 6 months about 8 years ago because they said I violated their terms of service for accepting payments for gun parts. They closed my account and I had to wait 6 months to be able to withdraw my funds.
Posted on 10/8/22 at 9:49 am to stout
Oh no... authoritarianism from a company I don't use.
Anyway...
Anyway...
Posted on 10/8/22 at 9:49 am to stout
And Scruffy is sure it’ll be applied in a completely non-partisan manner.
Dropped PayPal years ago.
Dropped PayPal years ago.
Posted on 10/8/22 at 9:49 am to stout
I stopped selling online because of PayPal.
Posted on 10/8/22 at 9:50 am to stout
quote:
“the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory.”
Except against whites.
Well I’m not using PayPal anymore
Posted on 10/8/22 at 9:50 am to stout
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The start of social credit system
100%
This is every authoritarian's wet dream
Posted on 10/8/22 at 9:50 am to stout
Lol. Steal $2,500 from my bank account and you’re gonna need some damned good security. That’s worth going to jail for.
Posted on 10/8/22 at 9:52 am to stout
quote:Just wait for when the credit card and banking cartels start enacting these policies.
The start of social credit system
Posted on 10/8/22 at 9:52 am to stout
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PayPal has the ability as a private company to implement this type of viewpoint-discriminatory policy,” Aaron Terr, a senior program officer at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, explained to The Daily Wire.
How is that possible? Would seem to be a violation of the user contract to take money for actions unrelated to the use of their service. FIRE guy sounds like a pussy who wants a new law passed.
Posted on 10/8/22 at 9:54 am to stout
So, if I send a scathing letter to the newspaper editorial desk Paypal could hit me for 2500? If I put some nonsense in the note section of a transaction I could see it. PayPal needs to stay in their lane and just process the money.
Posted on 10/8/22 at 9:55 am to stout
Read up on what they're doing to YoungRippa and his Rippaverse sales. They've put a "hold" on well over a million dollars. It is still on hold even since he has delivered on the orders.
Posted on 10/8/22 at 9:55 am to WylieTiger
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Decoupling my paypal as we speak!
They also own Venmo
Posted on 10/8/22 at 9:58 am to stout
Guess I'll be an ex-pay pal user shortly.
Posted on 10/8/22 at 9:59 am to PowerTool
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FIRE guy sounds like a pussy who wants a new law passed.
Why did you deliberately cut out the part saying "Under existing law"? FIRE guy points out that "existing law" is terrible to allow PayPal to do this and that makes him a pussy? FIRE is a great organization defending free speech, formerly on campuses and now in general. Your reading comprehension sucks
eta: and Paypal has had a long, long history of screwing with people's money with little recourse. I have a completely separate account with a separate bank from all my other stuff JUST for dealing with PayPal stuff for this exact reason
This post was edited on 10/8/22 at 10:06 am
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