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   From: embrace.woke.go.broke@paypal.com   
      
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   governor.swill@gmail.com wrote:   
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   > Looks like it's time to cancel paypal.   
   > I just deleted my cards from the paypal account.   
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   A new policy update from PayPal will permit the firm to sanction   
   users who advance purported “misinformation” or present risks to   
   user “wellbeing” with fines of up to $2,500 per offense.   
      
   The financial services company, which has repeatedly   
   deplatformed organizations and individual commentators for their   
   political views, will expand its “existing list of prohibited   
   activities” on November 3. Among the changes are prohibitions on   
   “the sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content,   
   or materials” that “promote misinformation” or “present a risk   
   to user safety or wellbeing.” Users are also barred from “the   
   promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of   
   intolerance that is discriminatory.”   
      
      
      
      
   The company’s current acceptable use policy does not mention   
   such activities. The Daily Wire reached out to PayPal for   
   definitions of the added terms, although no response was   
   received in time for publication.   
      
   RELATED: PayPal Reverses Plan To Fine Users $2,500 For   
   ‘Misinformation’ After Daily Wire Report   
      
   The policy applies to actions taken using PayPal’s platform.   
      
   Deliberations will be made at the “sole discretion” of PayPal   
   and may subject the user to “damages” — including the removal of   
   $2,500 “debited directly from your PayPal account” per offense.   
   The company’s user agreement contains a provision in which   
   account holders acknowledge that the figure is “presently a   
   reasonable minimum estimate of PayPal’s actual damages” due to   
   the administrative cost of tracking violations and damage to the   
   company’s 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, explained to 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. As is often the   
   case with ill-defined and viewpoint-discriminatory speech codes,   
   those with unpopular or minority viewpoints will likely bear the   
   brunt of these restrictions.”   
      
   The move comes days after PayPal canceled three accounts linked   
   to Toby Young, a commentator who runs a nonprofit called Free   
   Speech Union. The organization has defended clients such as   
   actor and comedian Russell Brand, who recently moved his show   
   from YouTube to Rumble in reaction to censorship from the former   
   platform.   
      
   Roughly one-third of Free Speech Union members rely upon PayPal   
   to process their membership dues — although the company gave no   
   explanation to Young for the suspension beyond mentioning a   
   breach of the acceptable use policy. PayPal later restored the   
   accounts after receiving criticism from lawmakers and apologized   
   to Young for “any inconvenience caused,” according to a report   
   from The Telegraph.   
      
   Platforms such as Amazon, Twitter, and Facebook have formerly   
   censored conservatives and others who subscribe to heterodox   
   positions on controversial social issues, including   
   transgenderism and homosexuality. GoFundMe seized millions in   
   funds raised for trucker protests in Canada earlier this year,   
   while Google recently began suppressing search results for   
   crisis pregnancy centers.   
      
   “These kinds of policies are unwise, threaten free speech, and   
   invite legal risk,” Jeremy Tedesco, vice president of corporate   
   engagement at Alliance Defending Freedom, told The Daily Wire.   
   “When companies apply policies to restrict the religious speech   
   of their customers, they could run afoul of prohibitions on   
   religious discrimination that exist in many state and federal   
   laws.”   
      
      
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