Is pay-pal entering the role of speech police ?

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PayPal should never be more than a temporary holding place for funds getting transferred to bank accounts.. but with these fines, I wonder if they’d go so far as to charge credit accounts or draft from checking accounts? I can see a lot of lawsuits coming from banks over this.
 
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First off I've made a lot of paypal transactions and I've never run into a problem over speech. Normally if there's any message at all it's "thanks for your business" or a question/response about the order. Secondly I can see a ban from using the platform but when they start "fines" that's bullshit. They aren't my employer, the courts, etc. Total nonsense and I'd expect court challenges if they try it. Finally, who would use a payment platform for this anyway? Somebody doing this has bigger problems- of the mental kind.
 
MolokaiRider said:

Here is the policy direct from PayPal.

The company has the right to run their business how they seem fit; the part about policing misinformation certainly seems open to personal internal discretion.

Not a fan myself, but on the bright side maybe there will be other competitive money transfer options available in the future.
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So somebody selling coins from Nazi-era Germany or daggers, whatever.. there's tons of stuff they could try to fit into this category, Black Americana like "Mammy" salt and pepper shakers.. old advertising signs or orange crate labels with the "wrong" imagery. I'm all for no racism but it seems like a lot of history and historical items could fall under this if somebody pushed it. I'd just like to add that the ONLY person I've ever known personally with a collection of "mammy" items, although it wasn't big, maybe ten items, was black.
 
This here is the main reason I this thread .


But as has already been made clear by online payment systems like PayPal and Venmo, even more silencing of alternative points of view is needed in the form of financial strangulation if necessary, which can occur via shutting down accounts entirely or, in PayPal’s case, will soon also potentially include $2,500 fines for WrongThink, according to a recently updated
 
I can’t take this 1984 crap anymore. It’s getting out of control. There is so much arbitrary language in this new policy, I find it hard to believe it’s legal. Yet, we’re going to test these waters? Personally, I’m done with these people. I have my limits. I’m not risking having $2500 taken from me because I type the word “knife” or phrase “I’m bothered by the power financial platforms have” somewhere, only to have some soulless AI hit on the word and activate an untransparent 0 oversight process. This is beyond the pale. Realize who you’re dealing with.

Check their stock price. Telling.

“New PayPal Policy Lets Company Pull $2,500 From Users’ Accounts If They Promote ‘Misinformation’”

www.dailywire.com

New PayPal Policy Lets Company Pull $2,500 From Users’ Accounts If They Promote ‘Misinformation’ | The Daily Wire

www.dailywire.com www.dailywire.com
 
Oops, kinda double post. I just posted one of these links too.

To all… Please take the time to familiarize yourselves with this.
 
You need to log in to read this but I did find recent news that Epoch reached out to PayPal and PayPal said that language is a mistake and they’re going to correct it.

Me thinks the backlash for this made them realize it was a “mistake”. What, they thought everyone was going to applaud and cheer this decision? I could hazard guesses as to the how and why this happened, but that will be for the PA.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/paypa...ing-misinformation_4783827.html?welcomeuser=1
 
CC companies will sue. A policy like this would cause so many costly problems for CC companies.
 
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