PayPal BUSTED AGAIN for burying in its Terms of Service the $2,500 fine for customers using “wrong think”

PayPal can still fine users $2,500 for promoting ‘intolerance’ despite its backtrack on ‘misinformation.’

Mind Matters As it turns out, PayPal has in place another dystopian financial censorship policy that enacts similar fines for those it deems bigots or hatemongers. Law professor Eugene Volokh exposed the PayPal policy, which again authorizes $2,500 fines (taken directly out of your bank account) for “activities that … relate to … the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory” in the “sole discretion” of, yup, PayPal.

This is, of course, entirely subjective. Anyone with mildly right-of-center viewpoints on topics ranging from affirmative action to climate change to religious liberty to abortion has, at one point or another, faced shrieks of “bigot!” from some progressive opponents. A company setting itself up to rob users of thousands of dollars for subjectively perceived speech crimes is not just dystopian, but also in grotesque violation of its users’ financial privacy and the trust that has been placed in the company by millions of hard-working people.

Cancel culture irony: thousands boycott PayPal for threatening users with $2500 ‘misinformation’ fine”

LifeSiteNews According to PayPal’s list of ‘prohibited activities,’ users can be fined $2,500 if any of their transactions relate to or involve ‘intolerance that is discriminatory,’ ‘the promotion of hate,’ and ‘items that are considered obscene.’

While PayPal has walked back its threat to fine users $2,500 for “misinformation,” the payment processing company is still reserving the right to fine users the same amount for other alleged transgressions.

In its current “Acceptable Use Policy,” which has been active for a year, PayPal states that: “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).” 

According to PayPal’s list of “prohibited activities,” users can be fined $2,500 if any of their transactions relate to or involve “intolerance that is discriminatory,” “the promotion of hate,” and “items that are considered obscene.”

Not only is PayPal reserving the right to fine users based on broad and subjective terms but its “User Agreement” states that PayPal will fine users if it “believe[s]” they’ve engaged in a prohibited activity. “If we believe that you’ve engaged in any of these activities, we may take a number of actions to protect PayPal, its customers and others at any time in our sole discretion,” the PayPal User Agreement states.

h/t Marvin W