PayPal backs down on misinformation fine.
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"sorry we accidentally put this out prematurely - see you again in 6 months when us, Visa, Mastercard Google, Youtube, the EU, the US Govt, etc, all put out the same thing together"
Visa and Mastercard don't have that authority. They are card issuers, not banks.
Didn't stop them from telling Patreon to kill Lauren Southern and Sargon's accounts.
I guess you missed this and the other instances like it: https://archive.ph/q0lfu
I wonder how this works with the "porn is a Jewish conspiracy" trash.
But yes, they can stop you having a card. They can't take possession of your money, because only the issuing bank has that authority.
They don't need to take possession of your money, they can just suspend your account or charge you a fee or something.
So either their policy was misinformation or this claim is misinformation. Either way, pay up Paypal!
"We never meant to admit to our censorship in public"
This is the whey
"You see, this sort of blatant misinformation is exactly why we added the misinformation policy in the first place."
But I mean misinformation is such a clear cut and unbiased thing
Probably realised it could be used against TERFs.
Nah, businesses across the board were willing to drop out instantly. Regardless of their stance, that much loss of business is a threat due to the potential to start competition and give them enough income to actually be viable. As it stands, Paypal has a captured market, and they don't want to abandon that.
Yeah, no way this was an accident. That is not a single person's doing.
Shit like that is vetted and proof read by multiple people. And not a single one of them realized that this "was never intended"?
Yep. "That wasn't my intent" is a way of forcing the listener to reassess.
It's tantamount to gaslighting. "We didn't mean what you noticed we wrote" doesn't fly-- it's corpospeak BS.
Yes. Nothing gets published in the AUP that hasn't already been reviewed by the legal team and the CIO. And once it got to the CIO and the legal team, it's already been discussed and crafted through a dozen meetings involving at least a dozen subordinates discussing it's merits, the potential to increase revenue, increase the company's social credit and decrease their carbon footprint.
Too late. Already closed my account with no intention of reopening. Sorry I fell for your "misinformation."
For real. Fuck them for even trying this there is no coming back from this as far as a company goes.
Venmo too, they are owned by the same people.
If you had a PayPal account, please get rid of it. They will just try again at a later date when it's more palatable, or, heaven forbid, legal.
Funny story, I'm permanently banned from PayPal after I told one of their reps to kill themselves.
You missed the opportunity to say "I want to speak with the man in charge". lol
I've hardly ever used them at all, only really did small-ish transactions that I didn't want on my bank records, probably a half dozen times since opening the account in 2009.
It really is a good time to completely close it down. Fuck these wannabe tyrants.
Don't pay for porn 🤣
Does this mean paypal has to credit all users 2500$ for posting misinfo?
the fact that it happened in the first place is the problem, not you getting caught.
How much do you want to bet some woke activist went rogue? Keep your eyes open for sudden departures from PayPal over the next week or so.
still gonna cancel them.
Paypal backs down for now.
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