There has been a bit of confusion surrounding just how woke and fascist PayPal has become. They banned us back in 2018 for wrongthink, but backed down after a popular outcry and reinstated us. Recently, however, it came to light that they planned to charge users $2,500 per infraction for “the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance,” and since the Left routinely smears opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women as “hate” and “racism,” it’s easy to see what’s coming.
After that policy came to light, PayPal announced that it was all a mistake, but this is still in their User Agreement as of this writing, Thursday, October 27, noon Pacific time:
If you are a seller and receive funds for transactions that violate the Acceptable Use Policy, then in addition to being subject to the above actions you will be liable to PayPal for the amount of PayPal’s damages caused by your violation of the Acceptable Use Policy. You acknowledge and agree that $2,500.00 U.S. dollars per violation of the Acceptable Use Policy is presently a reasonable minimum estimate of PayPal’s actual damages – including, but not limited to, internal administrative costs incurred by PayPal to monitor and track violations, damage to PayPal’s brand and reputation, and penalties imposed upon PayPal by its business partners resulting from a user’s violation – considering all currently existing circumstances, including the relationship of the sum to the range of harm to PayPal that reasonably could be anticipated because, due to the nature of the violations of the Acceptable Use Policy, actual damages would be impractical or extremely difficult to calculate. PayPal may deduct such damages directly from any existing balance in any PayPal account you control.
And the Acceptable Use Policy still says you cannot use PayPal for “the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance,” which is, once again, Leftist code for “speech that contradicts our agenda and our fantasies about how the world works.”
So it’s time to go. If you have supported us through PayPal and still do so, we’re immensely grateful for your help in keeping us going, and if you have a regular monthly donation set up, we hope you will transfer it to Anedot here (click the “Monthly” option). That’s a tax-deductible donation. Please also consider supporting my Patreon page here; we want to keep going as long as possible, and every day the fascist Left finds more obstacles to throw at us to prevent people from seeing the truths we present. Once again, I’m immensely grateful for your help.
The fascists have us in a tough spot. They have worked hard to make their services indispensable, and are now increasingly moving toward making access to them based on political and social conformity. If they succeed, they will of course destroy America as a free society; that’s what they want to do. So we have to fight back in every way we can, and be willing to accept inconvenience in doing so. If PayPal is threatening to fine users who don’t conform politically, we must leave PayPal. I’m going to do so now. I hope you will do so as well.
SecondEve2 says
If you are leaving PayPal, where are you going? We could use some suggestions!
GreekEmpress says
I don’t do much online.
Where can I send a check?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I’d love to leave Paypal, but I bought $20 worth of bitcoin there, so don’t plan to close it in case that ever grows. But yeah, I’ll check out Anedot
Wellington says
PayPal is indeed part of the “problem.” I for one never use it and there are alternatives to this, PayPal being just one more woke business.
Wokeness is killing the West, whether in America, the UK, France, Australia or wherever. I think it imperative to comprehend that Leftthink, far more than your standard authoritarianism as evidenced by such polities as Russia and China which to date never learn, or by the entire decrepit Islamic sphere of mankind (which also never learns), is the ultimate enemy of Western Civilization because it is the chief enemy within. And enemies within nine times out of ten are far more lethal than any enemy without.
Indeed, if the West had its act together, which it does not at present thanks to woeful leaders like Biden, Trudeau and the current pontifex maximus, nothing could prevail against the greatest civilization of all time.
Nothing, because the West at its best, with its enormous emphasis upon individual freedom, the like of which has never been equaled by any other civilization or society, is the principal reason why the West invented or developed, among so many other achievements, philosophy (starting with the Milesian School), democracy (starting with ancient Athens) and the scientific method (a feature of Early Modern Europe—16th to 18th century).
And, yes, I know that ever increasingly Islam is becoming an enemy within here in the West, but just imagine a West with Leftism’s complete demise as of tomorrow—a beautiful thought I would contend—and all other things being the same. Think Islam would still pose as much of a threat? No way, and confirming that it is Leftism which remains first and foremost inimical to the survival of the West. Yes, the ultimate enemy because the principal enemy within. Time for a beer.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Excellent post, my compliments.
To your point, muslims in the United States could be effectively marginalized if they weren’t “aided and abetted” by leftists – and all US laws were enforced.
And thanks for the reminder about the Milesian School…
Wellington says
Thank you, James. And perhaps a toast is in order to Thales, the founder of the Milesian School—just sayin’.
Check Burry says
I have stopped using them, I trust many more will.
VictorMc says
Realising what a corrupt company they were then I kicked them out more than 10 years ago.
I was simply ahead of my time. It has taken the world years to realise what an appalling company they are.
marc says
The only reason I have been using them was to get paid easily for smaller gigs mostly across borders, while it does not have the same features as paypal, I have been using https://wise.com/ which has worked out better for me.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
This is true. I recently got a visa to India, and my 3 ways of paying for them were wire transfers to a choice of 2 banks, or Paypal. The first 2 didn’t work, so it was just gratifying that I had enough in my Paypal account to cover the transaction