After facing backlash earlier this month, PayPal removed a line in its policy stating that spreading misinformation in particular would make users liable for a $2,500 fine. But users and politicians continue to demand clarity over which other kinds of speech will trigger the platform’s fines. Emily Mason in Forbes has more.
A part of PayPal’s user agreement that says any customer in violation of the platform’s “acceptable use” policy is subject to a $2,500 fine has been in place since at least 2013, according to the website’s archive. The fine had largely gone unnoticed until earlier this month when PayPal updated its acceptable use policy to state that messages which are “fraudulent, promote misinformation or are unlawful” are in violation of the policy and, by extension, subject to the fine. The “acceptable use” policy stated that determinations of which messages violated the policy would be made at “PayPal’s sole discretion”.
After drawing intense backlash from commentators stating that the policy could infringe upon free speech, the company rescinded the line in the policy citing misinformation and issued a statement saying it was posted in error on Monday, October 10th. “PayPal is not fining people for misinformation and this language was never intended to be inserted in our policy,” a spokesperson for the company said. PayPal’s former president David Marcus was among dissenters, posting a tweet objecting to the policy update, which was amplified further when Elon Musk responded, “Agreed.”
“PayPal’s new AUP goes against everything I believe in,” Marcus’ tweet reads. “A private company now gets to decide to take your money if you say something they disagree with. Insanity.”
The note about misinformation was removed from the acceptable use terms, but the $2,500 penalty for violations remains, causing continued concern.
The acceptable use terms still include “the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory” under “prohibited activities” – where “hate” and “intolerance” are ill-defined terms often weaponised against the non-woke.
PayPal’s website also still lists “provide false, inaccurate or misleading information” under the “restricted activities” portion of its policy.
While violating the “restricted activities” portion does not result automatically in the $2,500 fine (as, confusingly, it’s different to the “acceptable use policy”) it may still result in charges or other sanctions.
“Concerned about this language still in PayPal’s terms of service – it’s vague and seems like it could be weaponised to control speech,” Representative Tom Emmer wrote in a tweet on Thursday.
It seems PayPal still has a long way to go if people are to feel they can trust it with their money again.
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The report and the statement aren’t made to be accurate. They are made for people to stop resisting their plans. And then when it’s more expensive, we’ll, then… f**k em.
That’s how it is with pretty much everything.
We are going to control migration. When migration grows… f**k em.
We are going to cripple Russia with sanctions, Ukraine will defeat Russia. When the opposite happens… ah, f**k em.
Jabs are safe and stop you getting covid (I.e. a cold). When they don’t stop covid and actually cause harm… ah, f**k em.
These people literally don’t get anything right. Nothing. They are worse than useless. But they have the power and more importantly have all the contempt in the world for the public.
Not just Labour. All of them.
I heard on the BBC PM radio that climate ‘scientists’ have wrote a letter wanting the climate policies accelerated. Probably getting desperate given the EU elections with the Greens getting a good shafting, and people questioning was May really that hot.
And believe it or not, the first signatory was an accountant. Not a climate scientist at all.
There’s loads of other non-climate related signatories too.
It’s just a PR stunt. Where’s BBC Verify when you need it?
Very few at the UN IPCC are actually scientists. It is a bureaucracy, full of government people and the people who write the Summaries are doing so for political purposes. This idea that the IPCC is a scientific body is false. It is a political one and its final conclusions are all political.
When government are paying you money to look for a purple horse you are not going to be in a big hurry to say you cannot find any. You have a mortgage to pay and a family to feed. It really is as crude as that. Global warming is a trillion Dollar Industry. Truth and scientific Integrity is irrelevant.
If its cheaper, how come as we use more renewables the subsidies and surcharges keep growing. Shouldn’t they be going the other way..?
If this unseasonably cold weather continues (I am referring to the UK) and summer eventually drifts into a terrible winter, which isn’t beyond the bound of possibilities, I am really looking forward to all the reverse ferrets about ‘global boiling’.
“These people don’t get anything right”——Right according to who? Certainly not the public. They are getting things right according to them and what they want. The Political class do not serve us, they serve the UN and WEF.
“These people literally don’t get anything right.”
Not so Stewart. Given the agenda these people are working to they do get everything right.
Think destruction and depopulation.
How can it when we have to pay for it twice?
Once, for ‘green’ tech.
Twice, for the backup.
Remember, CO2 is 0.04% of our atmosphere.
Most of that is naturally produced by the sea, volcanoes.
Of the miniscule proportion of man’s contribution, the UK = 1%.
That’s why they lie saying it’s going to be cheaper. The cat’s sort of out the bag now that it’s pointless and useless. So they need to come up with some bullshit to keep the zero carbon train running.
There, it’s cheaper. If the media says it enough times enough NPCs will believe it. At least for a while. After that they’ll figure out the next lie to sell.
OFF-T. Mark Steyn arrives in UK tomorrow to fight state censor OFCOM.
~I am en route to London for Tuesday’s hearing in the High Court in my suit against the UK’s state censor Ofcom over The Mark Steyn Show‘s coverage of the Covid vaccines. It was a rough time for me health-wise last week, and I would rather not be making this journey. Aside from anything else, it seems faintly absurd that it is necessary to litigate this matter at all. The official narrative enforced by Ofcom – that the vaccines are 100 per cent “safe and effective” – is now obsolete and indefensible; the principal British vaccine has been withdrawn worldwide; and the United Kingdom’s legions of celebrity telly doctors are belatedly known to have been paid by Big Pharma to promote the efficacy of the jabba-jabba.
But they still have their TV gigs, don’t they? And Ofcom has no plans to do anything about that. Even though what they did – to receive compensation for promoting a medical product – is supposedly illegal.
Good luck Mark.
Miliband said similar in 2008 when he gave us the Climate Change Act. What actually happened was a doubling of bills and heading in the direction of a trebling of bills. How do bare faced liars get away such blatant deception?
They get away with it because there is a Climate Industrial Complex of Bureaucrats, the scientists that they fund and a bought and paid for media that present this climate crisis narrative daily to an unsuspecting public who have been fed this diet of global warming junk science for decades now, and think that Liberal Progressive Governments have the answer to that manufactured problem.
One of the things that has camouflaged their deception is the Ukraine situation. This muddied the waters and gave the parasites the excuse to blame price rises on Russia. But ofcourse prices were already rising year on year since Milibands Climate Change nonsense in 2008.
I want to ask Labour supporters to take a look at their electric bill TODAY. How much are you paying a month for electricity? In one years time I will ask you the same question again? So in June 2025 let’s see how much you are all paying? Do you realise how much a heat pump will cost you? Do you know that Net Zero via the smart meter will be bringing you “Dynamic Pricing” so that you will be charged based on if there is enough wind and what the demand at the time of day is? The National Grid estimates the cost of Net Zero to be in the region of 3 trillion. Where do you think that money is coming from? —It comes from YOU.
I can never remember which Miliband is supposed to be the weird one, David or Ed?
They are both firkin weird.
Weird is OK. I don’t mind weird. ———–It is evil that is the big problem. Ed Miliband is going to besome energy and environment minister or other in the next Labour government and you could not find someone more evil and anti human than this eco socialist UN parasite.——-If I believed in Gods, I would praying to them all right now.
There was a Youtuber back in 2018 called Based Amy and remember her questioning him in the street back then. She was part of Tommy’s crowd but had a large following. She was assaulted in the street by a Muslim.
He doesn’t photograph well does he, Ed Milliband?
Haha! I’m waiting for another one of Diane Abbott with her gob open.
No but seriously now, this is way more photogenic than Miliband
https://x.com/UNIVERSE_FEEDS/status/1800181007167189211
In Post Modern Land 2+2 =5. ——-In Post Modern Land truth is all relative. In Post Modern Land you don’t use observations, you use “Climate Emergency”, Climate Crisis” “global boiling”. In Post Modern land you can claim closing down all the fossil fuels that power 80% of the world and keep everyone alive will be cheap. In Post Modern Land every failed projection is swept under the Official Science carpet and is never to be mentioned again. —————But if Miliband and all the other UN lackeys think all of this crap will be cheaper, why did they never discuss the cost in 2019 when Net Zero was waved through without a vote? If it was going to be cheaper surely they would be screaming that from rooftops.
Miliband is the Reinhard Heydrich of the Eco Socialists. Heydrich pretended he was the protector of the Czechs and Miliband pretends he is the protector of our prosperity. Infact he is the destroyer in chief of prosperity
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Miliband
Miliband needs to meet the same end along with the rest of the Globalist cartel.
Well I know how Heydrich met his.
Could’ve gone much smoother is the guys Gun didn’t jam.
“Our democracy is in real trouble.”
No corollaries required.
Still, this report will serve its purpose as it will now be being broken down into chewy little soundbites for the next batch of incoming Labour
MP’sgrifters.Cheese, Gromit?
My wife and I were talking about the Climate Change lie earlier. She said “We’ve had months of cold weather and I had to put the heating on this morning”. I pointed out that miserable grey skies almost every day have been with us for 9 months now. Yet the laughable Met report, via their fiddled data, that we are boiling hot in record temperatures, yet we are sat with the heating on and a jumper.
Millibacon is a liar. Back in 2008 he commissioned a report from East Anglia University. The data did not match the model so they altered the data to fit. Millibacon knew it was false data. They are still raking in millions, still falsifying data, and that data forms the basis of the Net Zero insanity the world over.
Yet people intend to vote for him to destroy their lives. People are most certainly certifiable at best.
Incidentally, why does no politician say to these companies and Universities “Come back to us when your models can accurately model the last 50 winters and can predict the real, on the ground, in my jumper, weather for the next week”? After all, what is the point of figures unless they are accurate?
They ARE right. When Net Zero culls half of the world’s population because of freezing temps and no food, there will be a huge drop in energy demand. That means energy bills go down for TBTP (with high fuel needs Gulfstream V jets and 200/ft yachts) and the people that manage to survive the Climate genocide.
Are they his own ideas or who is pulling the strings
It’s interesting that the proposals rely so heavily on offshore wind power. I just wonder how vulnerable these would be to attack by an unfriendly power. A few sea drones, or submarine assaults, could wipe out much of the generating capacity. It’s not an inconceivable scenario.
Let alone the radar issues with a sea full of Windmills.
Why does anyone think Ed Miliband, the son of a Marxist, who has a degree in Economics and who has never done a real job in his life, knows diddly-squat about physics and power-generation?
He’s an embarrassment.
Red Ed!
Is there such a thing as a human understanding, self knowledge and a wisdom test that politicians could take before being able to enter parliament? No? We are doomed.
Take a good hard look at that Mug. —–That is the mug that will be deciding all our prosperity in the next Labour government with his UN lackey energy polices that pretend to save the planet. This twerp Miliband will be part of the Labour Government that strips away our wealth and then tells us to stuff our houses full of foam if we feel cold.
They will then have the bare faced audacity to tell us “Renewables are now cheaper than Fossil Fuels”.
“the full retail price is approximately four times that of the wholesale cost”
Why?
Why did the UK wind auction fail?
https://enodatech.com/news-insight/unravelling-the-uks-failed-offshore-wind-auction
Offer price too low
These people are WEF puppets. They follow orders, they hate us.