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 bet they will stop people from donating to churches or Christian organizations via Pay-pal and penalize people $2,500.
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I now see PayPal trying to backtrack on this. So i am now inclined to believe this were their intention all along since their legal team signed off on this. So after many years i will close out.
From your link
“An AUP notice recently went out in error that included incorrect information. PayPal is not fining people for misinformation and this language was never intended to be inserted in our policy,”
So how did that language come about, accidental typing?
This was where it was first brought to my attention:
Well said!
The error has been there since Sept. 30, 2022, according to my email from PalPay on it.
"a few bloody wars"?? Who is this "we" you speak of? [;^)
Accounting specifically "who" to "who"?
Me too. I didn’t think it would affect me until this thread today. Now I see it could. Thanks for revealing how sleazy PP actually is.
Oh, look. Social credit as per communist China. It was a nice country we used to have.
I try to avoid choosing PalPal for purchases and donations, and choose to enter this or that credit card information, only to see that the individual transactions seem to be handled by the PalPal company anyway. Pay Pal seems to be Big Brother in one’s credit card transactions, even if one does not literally choose a transaction to be a PalPal transaction. Am I wrong? What am I not understanding?
BUMP! You have a way with words.
“a few bloody wars”?? Who is this “we” you speak of? [;^)”
Perhaps you might look up the wars the United States fought in the 20th Century. Just for a start. How about the events of 1775? The Republican Party’s platform before the Civil War was “Free Speech, Free Soil, Free Men”. Are you not an American? I say “we” in the collective “we” of the United States, and further, I state it on the personal level of my family because we’ve been here since 1776 fighting over it, and a close relative of mine nuked 2 Japanese cities over it. My Dad destroyed a Communist city over it. Maybe you’ve been out of the country. Your entire life.
I have $100 coming to me for opening a PayPal Credit card. Once I get that, I will be closing my account.
What are you smoking?
They’re claiming it’s a rough figure of reimbursement of their costs in investigating. Why would they have any costs investigating something you said on another platform?
Paypal is now saying its language on fining users for misinformation was ‘never intended’ to be inserted in its policy. LOL.
A lot of users must have deleted their Paypal accounts.
“Paypal is now saying its language on fining users for misinformation was ‘never intended’ to be inserted in its policy. LOL.”
Yeah, it just crept into the language of their policy by accident. No, wait. Trump must have done it. That’s the ticket.
As mentioned upthread PayPal just pulled a “U-Turn”...after lots of angry feedback?
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