Paypal to charge $2500 or more for “bad speech” - Coming November 3

now i know why all the egirls and grifters went to cashapp and venmo
 
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Shit, I already pay the government to let me say Nigger, now I have to pay the Payment Processors too. Literally 1984
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Lord of the Large Pants said:
Whatever else is going on here, banning porn is usually a suicide note. It happened to Tumblr. It happened to Betamax. It can happen to Paypal.
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Paypal has had porn banned since forever. I think at least a decade if not more. It's why when you go to pay for goods and services anyone engaging with it will explicitly tell you to NEVER use the notes system because Paypal has an algorithim that tries to figure out what it is you purchased based on what you put in there.
 
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Well, they're not policing off-service activity (yet) but "activities that involve sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content, or materials" is still a pretty broad brush.
In particular, the part about "depict or promote violence, criminal activity, cruelty, or self-harm". In Paypal's sole discretion, they can fine you $2500 a pop for buying action movies on DVD. Of course they won't do that most of the time, but sometimes you need to use discretion. :dienull:

If you must use Paypal, it's probably safest not to buy or sell anything that has artistic content of any kind.
 
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Ya know, being a payment processor should be the easiest job in the world. You take money from one jackoff, and give it to the other jackoff he wants it to go to for a small fee. Easy fucking money.


But noooooooo, it's  so fucking smart to literally just say "fuck being a middleman" and steal the money outright because "he dun said sum bad words I dunt like" or "I dunt like his politics".

God damnit, I need to buy more rope.
 
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Nick Gars said:
Ya know, being a payment processor should be the easiest job in the world. You take money from one jackoff, and give it to the other jackoff he wants it to go to for a small fee. Easy fucking money.


But noooooooo, it's  so fucking smart to literally just say "fuck being a middleman" and steal the money outright because "he dun said sum bad words I dunt like" or "I dunt like his politics".

God damnit, I need to buy more rope.
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Its more about control. And making your own payment processor is almost borderline impossible. You need at least a hundred million, have to apply internationally and have to abide by mandated rules. Yes, you need all of that just to make sure one asshole gets money from another asshole.

The only good part about crypto is cutting these fucking cunts out of the picture. Middle-management has been humanity's biggest mistake. There's nothing more useless than a middle manager.
 
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Recently Paypal blocked all accounts of Toby Young, his private account, his publishing account, and the account he used for the Free Speech Union, an activist organization giving support to people being targeted for supression. No explanation, just some vague mumbling about terms of service.

That last one became a bit to much even for normies, people started talking, politicians started talking, and Paypal walked the fuck back. Not that the Free Speech Union is going to continue using them after that shit.

However it's not the first organization they've banned. It seems to be pretty common for them as a matter of fact. I gather the paypal CEO is very much into strangling peoples ability to express themselves.
 
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Gee, I wonder what's happening with PayPal in the year 2022- DEAR LORD!!!
 
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PayPal has always been a greedy piece of shit corporation that blocks and keeps money at their own discretion. At this stage they should just use the happy merchant as their logo, since it's the full embodiment of their ethic values.

But this is not just about PayPal, you can get booted from pretty much every payment processor or bank for not following their 'accepted usage policy', i.e., doing only what they deem acceptable and how they allow you to do so. It's really all about control. He who controls your money controls you.
 
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Lord of the Large Pants said:
Whatever else is going on here, banning porn is usually a suicide note. It happened to Tumblr. It happened to Betamax. It can happen to Paypal.

Let's give it a minute to see who's willing to take all that sweet, degenerate money.
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PayPal is a really big company, they're one of the key global ones in terms of transaction volumes and the like. It wouldn't be the end of them, but they would bleed a lot considering it isn't the first horseshit public decision they've taken this year. And frankly, it really fucking sucks when companies start acting like Speech Police. Bigotry isn't the way, but you have no recourse with decisions like that and you can get fucked over forged messages and the like, imagine if some guy gets mistaken with some other guy who did something like, say, go on a drunken bigoted rant. Some other guy gets misidentified as him, they lose thousands of dollars over this and might even lose their entire balance over a PR move, how does one get their money back without suing them? It's so fucking bonkers!
 
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