To the possible annoyance of a few, I have been on a streak showing you how bad The Left Crow has gotten (and is going to get). Trannies who believe they have the right to make medical decisions for your children to HR departments who compel speech. But in the background has been the movement by numerous financial businesses to deny services to people they deem "untouchable" due to their public statements on topics such as race and gender. Most of those statements wouldn't have elicited so much as a blink prior to say 2016 but now will get your bank account closed. Your business bank account closed and possibly your family's bank account(s) closed.
There are those who would make the "private company" argument in defense of these banks. They are free to associate (or not associate) with whomever they please. I'd agree with that except the Civil Rights Act put an end to "free association" by businesses a long time ago. Of course the CRA does NOT have a "viewpoint discrimination" portion and so these companies are technically within the law. Legislators need to get on the ball and end this. As more and more financial transactions are done electronically, it is vitally important that a citizen's right to access their money and send and receive money electronically is not subject to the whims of third parties who are supposed to only be the *means of transfer* rather than the *gatekeepers* of transfers. In short, the money held in those accounts or transferred between accounts does NOT belong to companies like PayPal, they remain the property of the sender or receiver depending on what point the transfer is in. The only time that a company like PayPal ought to be able to hold money or block transfers is if there is [reasonable] suspicion or evidence of fraud or other criminal activity.
But PayPal took it an extra step,presumably on behlaf of the LGBTQRSTUVWQYZ mafia and came up with a policy that would *allow* them to seize $2500 from an account, per incident, if that account was in violation of "acceptable use" policies:
Note the portion about "promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory."
Since such things are not only subjective but in some cases contradict social norms of many communities, this would allow PayPal to target those who express views it doesn't like, anywhere.
And the fine:
So PayPal can at it's own discretion look at your social media or other commentary and decide that it violates it's "rules" and then fine you (like it's a government and there is some duly enacted law somewhere).
This it The Left Crow I've been warning about for years. They are the shadow government that is coming into view.
Mind you PayPal has currently backtracked this, but be sure, the people who wrote this up are still working for PayPal. The lawyers that wrote it up are still employed or under contract. The people that OK'd this have not been shown the door. The only reason this is being backtracked for now is because people reacted to this by closing their accounts.
Understand that once this dies down they will move to make this policy again. They are not the only ones with such policies either. Rumble, whom I use for videos has a similar policy minus the theft.
And yes, it is theft. As I said earlier, the money does not belong to PayPal. That they would threaten to take it "at their sole discretion" is no different than the hoodlum on the street who relieves you of your wallet "at his sole discretion".
I'm going to close by saying that if you are a sane person who is against this Left Crow, you need to use alternatives. Yes those alternatives will be associated with people and organizations you may not care for and who, gasp, may actually hate you. However; that is the *cost* of a free society. I would suggest you look at Gab Pay and Parallel Economy. For fundraising I suggest GiveSendGo (I have had personal contact with them and they are *VERY* responsive and appear to be principled). One of the reasons PayPal and others act in the way they do is because they believe you gave no alternatives. If you do not support alternatives then these companies will continue to amp up the nonsense.