Posted on 10/08/2022 12:28:01 PM PDT by lowbridge
A new PayPal policy update appears to authorize the company to pull a significant sum of money from the accounts of users who spread “misinformation.
”Effective November 3, the new conditions will be added to the restricted activity section of the PayPal User agreement, the Daily Wire first reported. Changes include prohibitions on “the sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content, or materials” that “promote misinformation.
” While the prior policy already forbade “hate,” “intolerance,” and discrimination, the new one now also explicitly applies to specific “protected groups” and “individuals or groups based on protected characteristics.” Identities under this umbrella include race, religion, gender or gender identity, and sexual orientation.
“The promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory” would also be deemed a violation of the policy and possible grounds for penalty,” according to the soon-to-be-launched acceptable use policy. The financial tech firm’s current rulebook doesn’t cite these activities.
Breaking the rule against misinformation and hate speech “may subject you to damages, including liquidated damages of $2,500.00 U.S. dollars per violation, which may be debited directly from your PayPal account,” the company warns. In a user agreement, account holders accept and attest that the penalty is “presently a reasonable minimum estimate of PayPal’s actual damages” due to the expense the firm incurs by accounting for the violations as well as damage to its 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, told 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.
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I gave up PayPal years ago....They can pound sand...
Just use your CC.
CANCEL!!!
Dumped PayPal years ago.
“No way this “fine” can stand up in court.”
I’m not an attorney, but I sometimes play on one Free Republic. I suspect this would be a matter of contract law. If you sign on for it, then they can do it. They probably wouldn’t have done this if their attorneys didn’t sign off on it.
I have been involved in a number of lawsuits, through no choice of my own. Here’s how it works, assuming you aren’t a protected class where the government pays your bills. At the time you’d meet with an attorney, and he’d tell you if you had a case and he’d estimate your chances. Then he’d give you all the warnings, like it doesn’t matter if you have the law on your side as courts often don’t go with precedent or the law. A lawsuit is a crap shoot. He’ll ask for ten thousand down and he’ll call you when he wants more. They charge, depending on the firm, between five hundred and fifteen hundred per hour. At $2500 dollars here’s what I’d expect. It isn’t worth the fight and the annoyed customer will cancel his PayPal and that will be that. This is a win for PayPal even if they lose you.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.
I just moved my money. Closed acct
So do not tell anybody that your severe COVID symptoms disappeared shortly after being prescribed horse paste, unless you don’t mind being fined a mortgage payment or two or a few gas fillups
internet companies taking on the role of governments, they are not voted into position.
This has been all over the place and yet I have wonder if this is even true. Internet rumors are taken as fact. I am going to let things cool down first and see what PayPal says before reacting.
Ping
They would make fortune on the Paid Ukraine trolls who have ruined Free Republic.
I found this today after I cancelled my account
Why not dry up the PP seller base with this tactic?
So, basically if you post anything or comment anything on FR and use paypal you are open to fines…unless you actually believe that you are truly anonymous posting here online. I for one do not believe for a second that there is nobody anywhere in a position of authority who does not know, nor can’t find out on a moments notice dsrtsages name, address, phone number, employment history, tax records, medical records, mothers maiden name, top 10 passwords, internet history, criminal history, travel history, and where I am currently eating lunch and having a beer, to make it easier, a brewpub in Tahoe City…and this is not an indictment of anything JimRob does or doesn’t do, it just is a fact
PayPal just said this was an “error”
Wow. Just saw that. A corporate “oopsie” Thanks.
For anyone who doubts PayPal is going to charge users a $2500 fine if they post anything they disagree with, Bill Mitchell, a pro-Trump/MAGA supporter who had over 600,000 Twitter followers but banned for an opinion on masks, just had his personal & business bank accounts frozen for 3 weeks by Chase with no explanation as to why.
I say it was a trial balloon that got popped rather quickly. But PayPal and other leftist-run corporations will try again and again and again until they succeed.
This is the future unless someone, somewhere, somehow puts an end to it and to every bit of this insane, satanic "woke" crap.
Hey, what's on Netflix tonight? What are those Kardashian's up to? I just bought a new 75" widescreen and super-duper IPhone to watch porn on!! Check out my cool, new tattoo!!!
That is America now. . . an unserious, gluttonous people bedazzled by filth, rudeness and bullshit, eyes mindlessly glued to "smart" phones while the yoke of slavery is being slipped around their necks.
I used PayPal for only one transaction in the past and removed a credit card associated with my PayPal account long ago.
On three separate occasions, over a period of a few months this year, I have contacted PayPal Customer Support to close my account because my online request reports a problem. Each time they claim there is no issue with my account and that the problem is with their system that will be investigated. They promise to promptly close the account and notify me when the system problem is resolved. I never hear from them again and the account remains open. I don’t believe PayPal is being honest with account owners. I suspect it's a ruse to avoid closing existing accounts.
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