https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-paypal-policy-lets-company-pull-2500-from-users-accounts-if-they-promote-misinformationPayPal updated their terms of service, the "acceptable use policy";
https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/ua/pdf/US/en/acceptableuse-full-110322.pdfThe new language in the clause specifies;
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y. Violation of this
Acceptable Use Policy constitutes a violation of the PayPal User Agreement and may
subject you to damages, including liquidated damages of $2,500.00 U.S. dollars per
violation, which may be debited directly from your PayPal account(s) as outlined in the
User Agreement (see “Restricted Activities and Holds” section of the PayPal User
Agreement).
Prohibited Activities
You may not use the PayPal service for activities that:
.....
(d) depict or promote violence,
criminal activity, cruelty, or self-harm (e) depict, promote, or incite hatred or
discrimination of protected groups or of individuals or groups based on protected
characteristics (e.g. race, religion, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation,
etc.) (f) present a risk to user safety or wellbeing, (g) are fraudulent, promote
misinformation, or are unlawful, (h) infringe the privacy, intellectual property
rights, or other proprietary rights of any party, or (i) are otherwise unfit for
publication.
Did you use PayPal to take donations on your twitter account where you 'promoted disinformation' in the eyes of big brother PayPal? That's going to be $2500 from your account.
Did you say something they deemed as bigoted? Another $2500. The money will be subtracted directly from your account.
No sooner had these pages been published to their live and active policies and gone into effect and gotten called out by tons of commentators, then did paypal try to abruptly reverse course and claim it was all a misunderstanding, oopsie;
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/paypal-reverses-course-says-company-will-not-seize-money-for-promoting-misinformation_4783827.htmlQuote
“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,” a PayPal spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email.
Weird how the AUP includes clearly written and intentionally included language that was never intended to actually be there. It was just a test policy that they must have been dreaming up on a whim and accidentally published, not something they fully intended and only withdrew as the backlash against their company got so extreme in the past few hours that they closed down their account management services so people couldn't close their accounts en masse.