When the news of this spread many people publicly vowed to stop using their services and terminate their accounts.
At the same time people like alternative pundits like Candace Owens immediately seized the opportunity to launch and promote a substitute for PayPal.
SEE: Ignite The Right: Candace Owens Endorses Social Credit Score App Marketed For “Patriots”
PayPal was then quick to try and do damage control. In a statement to the National Review in the days following, PayPal tried to claim this was somehow a mistake and was never meant to be accepted.
An AUP notice recently went out in error that included incorrect information. PayPal is not fining people for misinformation and this language was never intended to be inserted in our policy. Our teams are working to correct our policy pages. We’re sorry for the confusion this has caused.
A spokesperson for the company said
But now that the heat has died down, PayPal has quietly backtracked once again and will now be reinforcing their $2,500 penalty fee. The newly updated terms of service are identical to the last one though worded slightly different and objectively even more ambiguous than before.
For example, PayPal’s “Prohibited Activities” list includes the forbearance of transactions that facilitate “the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory or the financial exploitation of a crime,” followed by “items that are considered obscene.”
PayPal is obviously not like a social media platform like Facebook or Twitter where people can post their thoughts, and accounts and messages can get nefariously scrubbed and canceled. So instead, PayPal will monitor every transaction that is made more closely, and if it links back to a group, movement, seller, company, charity, or institution they do not like, that is grounds for them to be fined and/or determined from using their platform.
Buried within the company’s terms of use, filed under the “Restricted Activities, Holds, and Liquidated Damages section,” PayPal condemns what they deem to “Provide false, inaccurate or misleading information,” among other things.
If PayPal is inclined to believe a user, namely a seller, crossed the line and peddled what they deem as “misinformation,” the company will tag accounts with $2,500 fine on an individual basis.
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.
If we close your PayPal account or terminate your use of the PayPal services for any reason, we’ll provide you with notice of our actions and make any unrestricted funds held in the balance of your Balance Account linked to your personal account or in the balance of your business account, or any money waiting to be claimed through your personal account if you do not have a Balance Account linked to your personal account, available for withdrawal.
Cryptocurrency monitor Watcher.Guru reported that this new policy will officially go into effect on November 3rd.
Jeremy Knauff for Grit Daily, one of the first to break the story on this change, says that he “anticipate[s] that the company’s PR disaster will grow, and with numerous competing payment platforms available today, this could deliver a devastating and well deserved blow to the company.”
Howbeit at the time of this publication, mainstream and alternative media have been silent on this policy change.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
Proverbs 28:11
When I reported on PayPal’s ridiculous policy change, I noted the following:
Even though PayPal has now been forced to not openly drain people’s accounts, this does not mean they are not actively shutting down people they do not want on there, whilst locking out people’s accounts and effectively stealing user’s unclaimed balances.
This news has received widespread mainstream media attention. For this reason, it was probably intended to be a “feeler” in the first place: put it out there and wait for the public’s reaction, and then implement the real goal that no one will notice because the media they have in their backpockets will not report on it. This happens all the time.
So, if and when the intended policy is implemented, I will try to report on it ASAP if I happen to catch it in time.
As I suspected what would happen – not only was the event used as a proxy to springboard Candace Owens’ covert social credit score app (which would also explain why The Daily Wire was given the slip and pushed hard in the early tsunami wave of that controversy, seeing as Owens works for Shapiro’s Daily Wire); but PayPal fully intended to reinstate this asinine fee.
Needless to say, get away from PayPal. The WP had already covered that PayPal had pledged to terminate accounts that they did not like and promoted “misinformation” well over a year ago, and were already going after independent journalists, including The WP.
But most people will not suspect a thing or care, because the mainstream has not thought for them and told them how to act. Whenever mainstream and alterative media all talk about something at once, know and remember a psy-op is at play and they are working in concert to try and generate an artificial reaction.
So, we’ll see if mainstream is ‘forced’ to talk about it. But notwithstanding, share this report and make sure people know to stay away from PayPal and other companies that promote something similar.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I suspect PayPal may fall & Musk may buy it.