PayPal Still Threatens $2500 Fines for Promoting "Discriminatory" "Intolerance" (Even if Not "Misinformation")

Reason ^ | 10/9/22 | EUGENE VOLOKH

[Yo-Yo]

What if you use PayPal to fund a group, website, or YouTube channel (via Patreon, for example,) that PayPal determines "at its sole discretion" violates their acceptable use policies?

[Yo-Yo]

This policy has been in place since at least September 2021. As if you didn’t need yet another reason to drop PayPal like a bad habit...

[Rurudyne]

Sounds like an excuse to charge a premium if someone wants to pay you with PayPal.

Just make it part of the terms they agree to if they do business with you.

[butlerweave]

so PayPal spies on it’s users ?

[ConservativeWarrior]

Is paypal still an accepted means of supporting FR?

It seemed so 2 weeks ago.

[I want the USA back]

Paypal has no authority to fine. It is a payment processor, not the court.

This action of theirs, I believe, is to close down businesses and organizations that they don’t approve of, such as MAGA hat stores, The Daily Wire, Free Republic.

[Bob434]

We need a PayPal alternative that is accepted nearly everywhere that paypal,is accepted. Wish Elon or someone could start such business. Paypal has sucked for a long time now- nothing but another flaming liberal power drunk site.

[Robert DeLong]

I left Paypal ages ago now.

[cymbeline]

“As if you didn’t need yet another reason to drop PayPal like a bad habit”

I think the purpose of the policy is to incentivise controversial posters to leave.

[jacknhoo]

Go Woke, go broke.

[PittsburghAfterDark]

Venmo is so ubiquitous in my circle I asked in the last week or so what ever happened to PayPal?

[ChuckHam]

Venmo is owned by PayPal.

[humblegunner]

I think the purpose of the policy is to incentivise controversial posters to leave.

Posters?

Paypal has posters?

[dljordan]

Do these people understand what kind of dystopia they’re building?

[ferret_airlift]

I’d say yes, but they are under the misapprehension that they will always be on top, and not subject to the hell they helped create.

[HollyB]

Any word if FR made the list? I pay monthly via PayPal.

[HollyB]

Pay-pal is an online payment option.

[flamberge]

so PayPal spies on its users?

They solicit informants with a link on their website for reporting violations of their terms-of-service.

I would expect they have an active department targeting websites or individuals who express undesirable ideas. I would not be at all surprised to discover that they have been specifically encouraged to do this by people in the Federal government.

[madison10]

This is weird. What does it even mean? They aren’t Facebook, or YT with people making comments to censor.

It is a purchasing service which should be more anonymous than a credit card.

Guess that is that. No more PayPal purchases. Too bad, because it was an easy route to use for donations to charities.

[Roccus]

Wish Elon or someone could start such business

Per an interview he gave a couple of months ago that was available to the public, he plans on incorporating just that once he gets twitter.