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PayPal top dog admits partnership with hard-Left smear machine SPLC to blacklist dissidents from Leftist agenda

Feb 26, 2019 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

The SPLC’s vicious use of its “hate group” list to demonize and destroy legitimate groups that dissent from the Leftist agenda has gotten so bad that even the Washington Post took notice. Nonetheless, the Left’s authoritarian agenda is galloping forward, with steady bannings of dissidents from social media platforms. Soon only the Leftist point of view will be heard, and then an era of peace will dawn all over the West. Won’t it?

“PayPal CEO Admits Partnership with Far-Left SPLC to Blacklist Conservatives,” by Charlie Nash, Breitbart, February 25, 2019:

PayPal CEO Dan Schulman admitted during an interview with the Wall Street Journal that PayPal works with the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) when it considers blacklisting conservatives.

After being asked by the Wall Street Journal what “values” PayPal identifies with,” Schulman replied, “Probably the most important value to us is diversity and inclusion.”

“I think North Carolina was probably the moment that was the most visible, where we basically said this violates our core value and we need to make a very public stand on it,” claimed Schulman, referencing the time when PayPal pulled out of an investment in North Carolina because the state passed a bill making it mandatory for people to use the bathroom of their biological sex.

“Businesses need to be a force for good in those values and issues that they believe in. It shouldn’t come from backlash or people taking heat on it, because then it’s in response, as opposed to the definition of who you are and then how you react to the context that you find yourself in,” the PayPal CEO expressed, adding that the Charlottesville rally in 2017 was a “defining moment” for PayPal to start blacklisting conservatives.

Schulman claimed it “was a defining moment for us as a company,” that was “difficult,” because, “the line between free speech and hate, nobody teaches it to you in college. Nobody’s defined it in the law.”

During the interview, Schulman also admitted that the far-left SPLC helps to inform “PayPal’s decisions.”

“There are those both on the right and left that help us. Southern Poverty Law Center has brought things. We don’t always agree. We have our debates with them. We are very respectful with everyone coming in. We will do the examination carefully,” Schulman explained. “We’ll talk when we don’t agree with a finding: We understand why you think that way, but it still goes into the realm of free speech for us.”

The SPLC, which also reportedly works with Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Twitter, was forced to pay a $3.3 million settlements to anti-extremist activist Maajid Nawaz last year, after the organization included him on a list of “anti-Muslim extremists,” despite Nawaz being Muslim himself.

The lawsuit victory prompted at least 60 other organizations to also consider lawsuits against the SPLC, and in June, a Washington Post columnist declared the SPLC “has lost all credibility.”

PayPal has blacklisted WikiLeaks, Infowars, conservative commentator and Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes, political activist Tommy Robinson, investigative journalist Laura Loomer, blogger Roosh V, free speech social network Gab, YouTube alternative BitChute, and a black metal music label.

Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch, and Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative were also temporarily blacklisted by PayPal, before being reinstated….

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  1. somehistory says

    Feb 26, 2019 at 2:18 pm

    “diversity and inclusion” are more important than honesty, integrity, equal rights and freedom of speech with which one disagrees.

    His “speech” is a lot of nonsense But he has the legal right to say it. f he owned a restaurant, he would not be allowed to turn away a hungry person who knows the Truth about islam, the splc, etc., even if he knew who the person was. He shouldn’t be allowed to block people with whom he disagrees just because he disagrees. If one has not committed a crime, his company should not keep them from monetary transfers.

    • Mac-101 says

      Feb 26, 2019 at 2:39 pm

      The worst thing is isn’t the CEO of Pay Pal one those of those people who the Muslims want to kill first? First the Saturday People then the Sunday people! Yet he supports Islamist and fights against those who stand for Freedom?
      .
      He didn’t git where he is by bein Stupid? What is it with these people?

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 26, 2019 at 6:06 pm

        +1

        • Mac-101 says

          Feb 26, 2019 at 7:34 pm

          Thanks Graven. It is just so creepy the very people who will definitely LOSE are the ones supporting Muslims the most. Between this clown and Zuckerberg they have advance the danger of Islam tremendously, not to mention the thousands of others. Please let me add Jew AND Gentiles that are selling us out as quickly as they can to Islam and the Chi-Coms!
          .
          .
          Is it greed or Satanic possession? Just look at Brenan and Clinton. Don’t they just look Evil? Or do they just want to be on the TEAM they expect that will win and ensure themselves and their children a place in the Islamic Paradise they are assisting to create. We ALL know every Islamic Paradise is a HELL hole for ALL except the Elites!
          .
          I highly doubt any Westerner will be able to control Islam once the gates are Breached!

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 26, 2019 at 7:47 pm

          That’s why they are called useful idiots, Mac.

        • Mac-101 says

          Feb 26, 2019 at 8:14 pm

          Graven, This is what frustrates me so much. All these Tech Giants are extremely intelligent, amoral and ruthless people who screwed over countless numbers of their friends to gain the wealth and power they have which is well documented. They are experts in organizational dynamics.
          .
          They can NOT be idiots. However, I find it hard to believe that anyone would think that once Western Civilization collapses to these barbarians that THEY will be able to regain the upper hand. The will suffer the same fate as the Iranian Commies once they helped git the Ayatollah into power.
          .
          Perhaps I give them too much credit!

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 27, 2019 at 9:25 pm

          Mac, someone can be intelligent–even brilliant–in one field, and utterly clueless in another. We see this all the time–*especially* when it involves willful ignorance.

          Being a genius in tech does not ensure that someone understands anything at all about the threat of Islam.

          I have lots of neighbors who are both intelligent and well-educated, who will deny that Islam presents any threat to us at all.

      • Lydia Church says

        Feb 26, 2019 at 9:34 pm

        Some of the most evil criminal masterminds are not dumb.

        It is not an issue of smart versus dumb, but good versus evil.
        It is a spiritual dynamic.

        Anyway, all this comes down to either one is aligned with God (of the Bible), or against Him.

        All of these things are signs of the times and just like the holocaust, that strategy will continue to grow.

        • Mac-101 says

          Feb 26, 2019 at 10:26 pm

          Amen Sista!

    • Phil Copson says

      Feb 28, 2019 at 3:42 am

      “….the most important value to us is diversity and inclusion” – claims the man working hard to impose uniformity and exclusion.

      ( “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’.

      ’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’.

      ’The question is,’ said AliSPLC, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”.

      from “Dan’s Adventures in Left-Wing Wonderland”)

  2. mgoldberg says

    Feb 26, 2019 at 2:30 pm

    Diversity is code for … say nothing negative about anything- or else, and inclusion is code for… ‘you will be excluded if you opine any opinion judged politically incorrect.

    The globalist vision is indeed the cousin to marx’s world view

    • mortimer says

      Feb 26, 2019 at 3:46 pm

      Diversity? How about good old un-DIVERSE SAUDI ARABIA, Mr. Schulman ?

      Will Paypal Pay now start blacklisting CONSERVATIVE OLD SAUDI ARABIA … How about it, Schulman ???

      How about blacklisting ALL MUSLIM COUNTRIES with DISCRIMINATORY Sharia law enshrined in their constitutions?

      Yeah, Schulman, start blacklisting ALL Muslim countries that don’t observe GAY RIGHTS!

      Show some LEADERSHIP, Schulman!

    • mortimer says

      Feb 26, 2019 at 3:48 pm

      Goldberg wrote ‘world of marx’, but which ‘marx’ did you mean? Harpo, Groucho or Karl?

  3. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Feb 26, 2019 at 2:45 pm

    The war that Islam wrought:
    “Pakistan-India showdown: What you’re not being told”

    https://www.rt.com/op-ed/452461-india-pakistan-showdown-terrorism/

    https://www.breitbart.com/news/pakistan-military-accuses-india-of-violating-airspace-over-kashmir/

  4. mortimer says

    Feb 26, 2019 at 3:35 pm

    PayPal CEO Dan Schulman: “It isn’t ‘fascism’ when WE DO IT.”

  5. mortimer says

    Feb 26, 2019 at 3:42 pm

    What is the FINANCIAL BENEFIT in these globalist enterprises in banning conservatives?

    Can someone with a deep knowledge of finance explain this hidden FINANCIAL incentive?

  6. ntesdorf says

    Feb 26, 2019 at 4:36 pm

    PayPal is a financial fascist organisation allied to the new hard-Left political machine formed from the remnants of the Democrat Party and it wants to blacklist any dissidents from the hard-Left agenda. PayPal is but one of many similar web controlling organisations.

  7. mortimer says

    Feb 26, 2019 at 5:02 pm

    Mr.Shulman, slander is wrong. SPLC is a slander organization. It is morally wrong to do what they are doing.

  8. gravenimage says

    Feb 26, 2019 at 5:54 pm

    PayPal top dog admits partnership with hard-Left smear machine SPLC to blacklist dissidents from Leftist agenda
    ………………

    Disgusting.

  9. roberta says

    Feb 26, 2019 at 7:54 pm

    I dumped PayPal when they turned on Robert Spencer. My life has been just fine without them.

  10. WPM says

    Feb 27, 2019 at 10:00 am

    PayPal should be run like a bank or any other financial corporation peoples political beliefs or religious should not effect its actions. Should paypal not let people use it services because they are republicans or democrats ,or Jews ,Catholics ,or Moslems ,as long as they are buying legally products with their services. If they are using the services to buy bomb making equipment , illegal guns ,ect or openly calling violence then its a different story. Jihad watch ,Robert Spencer,s books never call for violence or condone violence against any group or people.

  11. Doug4501 says

    Feb 27, 2019 at 9:23 pm

    Simples. Delete your Paypal account. We don’t really need it anyway. Credit cards do for most purposes.

  12. TC says

    Feb 27, 2019 at 10:41 pm

    Financial Blacklisting: Chase Bank Withdraws Service from Independent and Conservative Figures
    Chase, one of America’s big four retail banks, has withdrawn service from a number of conservatives in recent weeks, amid a rise in financial blacklisting by payment processors and credit card companies.
    Martina Markota, a video host for the conservative news website Rebel Media, reported on social media that Chase sent her a letter earlier this month stating that it would terminate service to her business, Magnum Opus Productions LLC, which is linked to her graphic novel, “Lady Alchemy.”
    Chase did not give a reason in the letter for its decision to terminate Markota’s account.

    Martina Markota ✔ @MartinaMarkota
    · Feb 19, 2019
    Chase doesn’t close accounts via APPs. They send you an official letter in the mail. Wake up people.

    Markota’s report followed a string of similar incidents which saw Chase withdraw service either temporarily or permanently from Conservative and alternative media figures.
    Last week, independent reporter, Army combat veteran and purple heart recipient Joe Biggs reported that Chase closed his account. Biggs told One America News that while the bank later agreed to resume services to him, it was only in the aftermath of social media backlash from the Trump-supporting veteran’s followers.
    Biggs has opted to take his service to another bank, and started a “#CancelChase” hashtag on Twitter, urging his supporters to follow suit.
    Earlier this month, Chase’s online payment processor withdrew service from 1776.shop, an online store run by Enrique Tarrio, the American of African and Cuban descent leader of the right-wing Proud Boys organization. Chase Banks subsequently sent Tarrio a letter informing him that they would shut down his personal account as well, giving him until the first of April to move his funds and automated payments to a different bank.
    In addition to the bank’s withdrawal of service, Tarrio says he has also been banned from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Airbnb, and Firstdata, as well as from payment processors PayPal, Square, and Stripe.
    Conservative activist Laura Loomer also reported that she was unable to access her Chase banking app last week, although it is not yet clear if this was a formal suspension or a system error, which are a common problem in banking apps.
    These moves by Chase come amid a rise in politically motivated denials of service by credit cards, payment processors and online funding platforms.
    In August, Mastercard and Discover blacklisted conservative and Islam critic Robert Spencer. In the same month, Visa and Mastercard ceased service to David Horowitz. While credit card processing service to Horowitz was eventually restored, Spencer remains financially blacklisted.
    Online funding platform Patreon triggered a user boycott late last year when they withdrew service from the popular critic of progressivism Carl Benjamin, aka Sargon of Akkad. Numerous high-profile users of the platform including Sam Harris, Dave Rubin and Jordan Peterson quit the platform in protest. It later emerged that Patreon’s anticipation of credit card companies’ objections played a key role in its decision.
    Many of the companies involved in the rise of financial blacklisting have faced a sustained campaign by left-wing agitators including the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Color of Change urging them to withdraw service from conservatives and Trump supporters. The former was allegedly responsible for the blacklisting of Robert Spencer, while the latter claims to have removed 158 funding sources from “white supremacist sites” — although as the group didn’t publicly name the allegedly “white supremacist” sites. The far left typically smears regular Trump supporters with the label.
    Even liberal groups have raised the alarm about financial blacklisting. In a comment to Breitbart News last July, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warned that banks and payment processors were becoming “de facto internet censors.”
    Responding to Breitbart News’ request for comment, a Chase Bank representative said that the bank would not comment on individual account-holders for privacy reasons. However, the representative added that the bank “would never close an account for political reasons.”

  13. TruthHonestReality says

    Mar 1, 2019 at 2:13 am

    PayPal’s top scum also loves white genocide. He hates white people and he has a white population countdown in his office. He has a list of USA and a countdown for Europe.

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