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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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   PayPal has introduced a new policy, which allows the finance   
   company to directly debit up to $2,500 for spreading   
   'misinformation'   
      
   SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA: The financial services company, PayPal has   
   introduced a new policy that will enable it to sanction users   
   fines up to $2.500 per offense if found guilty of advancing   
   purported "misinformation." In other words, it also means those   
   individuals who present a risk to the user "wellbeing." PayPal   
   is not new to crackdown against organizations and individual   
   commentators when it comes to their political views. The latest   
   update will be applicable from November 3, and will expand its   
   "existing list of prohibited activities."   
      
   It will now keep an incessant tab on "the sending, posting, or   
   publication of any messages, content, or materials that promote   
   misiformation" or "present a risk to user safety or wellbeing."   
   The new policy further barred users from "the promotion of hate,   
   violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that are   
   discriminatory." Deliberation will be made at the "sole   
   discretion’" of PayPal and may subject the users to "damages,"   
   which include controversial removal of $2,500 "debited directly   
   from user’s PayPal account" per offence, as per The Daily Wire.   
   The finance company reasoned that the number was decided   
   considering administrative cost of tracking violations and   
   damage to the company’s reputation.   
      
   Aaron Terr, a senior program officer at the Foundation for   
   Individual Rights and Expression, reflected on PayPal's new   
   policy, “Under existing law, PayPal has the ability as a private   
   company to implement this type of viewpoint-discriminatory   
   policy.” He added, “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 decision came in the wake of PayPal’s decision to cancel   
   three accounts linked to Toby Young, a commentator who manages   
   the nonprofit ‘Free Speech Union’. The group has openly   
   supported comedian Russell Brand, who moved his show from   
   YouTube to Rumble due to censorship from the popular video site.   
      
   PayPal didn’t give a proper explanation for their action, other   
   than mentioning a "breach of the acceptable use policy," said   
   the report. However, the company succumbed under public pressure   
   and had to restore Brand’s account and apologize, reported The   
   Telegraph. Major platforms, including Amazon, Twitter, and   
   Facebook had too taken a strict stand in past, against   
   conservatives and other elements who opt for heterodox positions   
   on controversial social issues.   
      
   Especially, against transgenderism, and homosexuality, platforms   
   such as GoFundMe confiscated millions of funds raised for   
   trucker protests in Canada that were supposed to take place   
   earlier this year. Jeremy Tedesco, vice president of corporate   
   engagement at Alliance Defending Freedom said, “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.”   
      
   Many PayPal users have slammed this decision and took to Twitter   
   to share their reactions. One user wrote, "Delete your #PayPal   
   account now." Another tweeted, "It’s not “misinformation”   
   #PayPal wants to censor, it’s dissent. I saw what they did to   
   the Canadian truckers, I see what they’re doing to independent   
   content creators. I’m closing out. I hope they get litigated   
   into oblivion." One wrote, "Surely this renders #Paypal   
   unusable? They will have sole discretion to charge you $2500 if   
   they believe you are funding anything 'objectionable' or   
   spreading 'misinformation'! Who could even contemplate taking   
      
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