"Sole discretion" basically means if they don't like you or your activity or speech for any reason, they get to fine you and punish you.<p>That sure sounds like intolerance to me. Otherwise what are they tolerating?
WHO IS using paypal? They ban accounts <i>daily</i> with very little recourse to get any money. Getting your own merchant account isn't hard. They are just a crappy layer on top of a merchant account you can get <i>today</i>.
As long as the transaction is legal, paypal should allow it to go through. They should not be discriminating against certain groups (as bad as they might be). They should maximize stock holder value as opposed to being biased against some groups. If they are wasting time/money with stuff like this, it really make one wonder what else they are wasting their time/money. I think I need to make sure that any paypal stock (and funds containing it) that I have needs t be sold and not to purchase any in the future.
I was banned for telling a black person that "person of color" is a silly term, and that he should just call himself black. The justification cited : racism.<p>These are the people in charge.
I don't like PayPal but I don't see alternatives for my business use case. I have lots of employees all over the world and some of them can only receive money via PayPal. Wire transfer fees are too high for small amounts of money. Western Union is very expensive.
Surely this won't turn into a political weapon and be used by people who want more control over society and politics to twist definitions of words to attack people they disagree with in order to avoid having a real conversation. It's abundantly obvious that if this was used to punish people who insist on a more authoritarian federal government or who openly hate people of european heritage online this would be an outrage to the usual suspects and not even given the light of day, the fact it's being applauded is a great indicator that this will be used to persecute people who dissent the federal government.<p>You don't want a welfare state? Must be because you are intolerant to the minorities that use it. 2500$.<p>You don't want to see a biological male pummeling a woman in a cage fight? obviously rooted in discriminatory ideology! 2500$.<p>You questioned the election results? You are intolerant to democracy! Oh wait, you were referring to a special election in Georgia? Our bad, we've reimbursed you for our erroneous detection and applied the usual double standard.<p>You are vocalizing autonomy and authority over your own body? Antivaxxer detected, docking 2500$. Oh, dang, the automated system didn't realize you were referring to an unwanted baby so we've reimbursed you.
PayPal have done this to sex workers and queer artists for fifteen years, so you'll have to forgive me not really giving a shit about the latecomers to this.<p>We absolutely need to criminalise banking discrimination, but ultimately we are not going to because quite a lot of politicians quite like banking discrimination against their enemies.
Only the type of people who are fine with this (fine) are using PayPal. If you've just woken up from a coma, leftoids use PayPal and Banks and rightoids use Monero and Gold.
Sounds like a great idea on the surface. The question is who's deciding what counts as discriminatory, intolerant, or misinformation.<p>Obvious examples like unabashed white supremacists aside... what happens in less clear cases, like when a Palestinian rights organization starts posting BDS stuff, and Israelis respond by calling them a terror group?<p>One more justification for uncensorable, provably non-inflationary digital currencies.