Posted on 08/21/2017 1:49:52 PM PDT by davikkm
Online payment company PayPal has banned Jihad Watch and the site’s director Robert Spencer from accepting online donations using the service. PayPal has reportedly suspended the account of Jihad Watch, according to the website’s director, Robert Spencer. In a post on Jihad Watch calling for the boycott of PayPal, Spencer outlined his correspondence with the company over a number of emails. PayPal’s suspension of Spencer’s account came shortly after an article published by Lauren Kirchner of ProPublica who criticized tech companies such as PayPal that allow Jihad Watch to utilize their online services.
“Because of its “extreme hostility toward Muslims,” the website Jihadwatch.org is considered an active hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League,” wrote Kirchner. “But its designation as a hate site hasn’t stopped tech companies — including PayPal, Amazon, and Newsmax — from maintaining partnerships with Jihad Watch that help to sustain it financially.”
Shortly after the publication of this article that PayPal contacted Spencer with an email which stated,
Dear Robert Spencer,
We have recently reviewed your usage of PayPal’s services, as reflected in our records and on your website https://www.jihadwatch.org. Due to the nature of your activities, we have chosen to discontinue service to you in accordance with PayPal’s User Agreement. As a result, we have placed a permanent limitation on your account.
We ask that you please remove all references to PayPal from your website. This includes removing PayPal as a payment option, as well as the PayPal logo and/or shopping cart.
If you have a remaining balance, you may withdraw the money to your bank account. Information on how to withdraw money from your PayPal account can be found via our Help Center.
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Outrageous. Jihad Watch does yeoman’s work in exposing Islamists, Wahabbis, Pakis, Khalistanis etc.
Is MEMRI next?
Now add BLM and the ironically named ANTIFA.
Probably can’t add the terrorist-supporting and racists democrat party.
Gee, what a surprise.
What do you wanna bet that PayPal has moved money for groups like The Holy Land Foundation? (under other names) though?
I meant instead.
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Meanwhile millions of dollars are likely funnel though PayPal to finance terrorist attacks.
If we had an Attorney General with the gonads to start asking the right questions, companies like PayPal might get seized for being financiers of Terrorism.
The authoritarian left is going after sites for “ racism” “ hate speech” etc and pressuring companies like paypal and credit cards to drop them
This is an organized operation
I think eventually FR will make the list
Be prepared
Paypal? Paypal?
Wasn’t that something some con artist named Musk founded in the last millennium to con people out of the money on questionable websites like Ebay or stuff like that?
Like Facebook - I never fell for that scam.
This is it. The left will now start attacking all the sites where you can find the TRUTH. There is no free speech in this country.
More Muslim ass-kissing.
PayPal needs to be confiscated as a dangerous enemy collaborator under the sedition act and related laws. ( the company then should be turned over to loyal American citizens but not before its split up due to its monopolistic payments forwarding market dominance -.albeit that’s a second serious problem with PayPal)
When will they also ban the accounts of the religion that advocates killing, raping, enslaving, and plundering people who dont have same viewpoint?
We desperately need conservative alternatives to PayPal, eBay, youTube, Patreon, Google, etc.
My company has the skills to develop all of these sites. The only moderately challenging aspect is building an infrastructure and code base that can handle massive loads.
Any multi-millionaires out there that want to change the world and become a multi-billionaire in the process?
We also need an alternative to Amazon - but that is an entirely different level of complexity. It can be done but the initial capital requirements are massive and the risk would be high.
I have never used, or trusted Paypal, and now I never will.
Have no use for Robert Spencer, but what frightens me more than fascists with no power is fascists that do have power.
This is why I quit using pay pal a long time ago.
In the early 20th Century we created the field of antitrust law to deal with the destructive practices of the railroads.
Looks like in the 21st. Century we’ll have to do the same to Big Tech.
This is exactly right. For what it's worth, "Gab" is an alternative to Twitter, and I believe I read the other day that they are now offering Video Hosting services.
Yes, we need to quickly short circuit the left's attempts to censor speech, even if it is ugly speech with which we disagree. The problem with setting standards for speech is that the standards keep getting moved. "Christianity" will shortly be regarded as "hate speech", as it now is in England.
My company has the skills to develop all of these sites. The only moderately challenging aspect is building an infrastructure and code base that can handle massive loads.
Any multi-millionaires out there that want to change the world and become a multi-billionaire in the process?
More power to you. Perhaps you could start a go-fund-me, though that Fascist organization bans conservatives too, but i've heard there is a new alternative to it.
And for what it's worth Infogalactic is a non liberal alternative to wikipedia.
we need your company. I would search for conservative investors, get a really forceful marketing agenda and use part of this quote from the article:
“The Left sees blood in the water after Charlottesville and is moving in for the kill, attempting to delegitimize, silence and destroy all dissenting voices. The freedom of speech, the foundation of a free society, is being eroded away under our very noses. The recent meeting of the Vice President of Facebook with the Pakistani government, and his assurances that Facebook would remove all criticism of Islam, reveal what’s really going on here: not an attempt to shut down actual “hate speech,” which would result in the closing of many mosques, but an attempt to shut down all criticism of Islam in accord with Sharia blasphemy laws, with the goal of allowing the jihad to advance unopposed and unimpeded.”
The Iron Curtain descends over the Internet...
So who are the real fascists?
I am waiting for PAYPAL to ban Christian Mission Organizations very soon, since they are the only the only ones spreading truth in the world these days with regards to the spiritual war going on.
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