PayPal Bans Jihad Watch from Accepting Donations

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[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.

[tbw2]

Scott Adams of Dilbert fame suggested regulating big tech like a utility, requiring “equal time” the way broadcast over the air TV is. I don’t think that works given how liberal NBC, CBS and so forth are despite the supposed neutrality.

[DiogenesLamp]

Scott Adams of Dilbert fame suggested regulating big tech like a utility, requiring “equal time” the way broadcast over the air TV is. I don’t think that works given how liberal NBC, CBS and so forth are despite the supposed neutrality.

At this point, I am in favor of using any force of law or force of social disruption to damage or destroy google and the other tech-world Nazis.

I've even joked that we need to be lining up howitzers on the Horizon with the intentions of destroying google's server farms.

Google is the STASI of the new super state. It is a threat, and it needs to be dealt with. Anti-Trust law suits me if it can achieve the result of defanging this evil monstrosity.

[RetiredTexasVet]

They have my sympathy .... I just don’t buy it if they don’t take a credit card (online) or cash/check.