It seems that “voting with your feet” (this time electronically) still works. PayPal, which had announced new “legal agreements” earlier this month, is backing down.
That sounds like gaslighting to someone who works with corporate attorneys.
Every single word and punctuation mark is approved by legal and corporate before release. “Never intended to be inserted” isn’t a thing.
— Robert Rand (@robertwrand) October 8, 2022
The new agreement, which would have taken effect in early November, attempted to control free speech by its clients. It has since been removed from the PayPal website, but as reported by The Daily Wire:
A new policy update from PayPal will permit the firm to sanction users who advance purported “misinformation” or present risks to user “wellbeing” with fines of up to $2,500 per offense.
The financial services company, which has repeatedly deplatformed organizations and individual commentators for their political views, will expand its “existing list of prohibited activities” on November 3. Among the changes are prohibitions on “the sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content, or materials” that “promote misinformation” or “present a risk to user safety or wellbeing.” Users are also barred from “the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory.”
As the contents of the new legal agreement because widely known, droves of PayPal customers began to withdraw their funds and close their accounts. One example:
My opinion? Find another service provider. PayPal may have been the big dog in the market, but they aren’t the only one, and who knows what they will try next. I don’t know anything about this particular company, but here is one of the companies advertising their services:
PayPal showed us their true colors. They will steal your money if you disagree with them.
This is why I created @officialpsq and why we've become the largest network of patriotic businesses in America.
Find a freedom-loving payment processor on our app.https://t.co/Hw1XckQ0nh
— Michael Seifert (@realmichaelseif) October 8, 2022
Imagine a world where Paypal starts pulling stunts like this, stealing $2500 from you if you utter something conservative on the internet, and then you try to raise public consciousness about what’s going on by mentioning it on Twitter, but Twitter shadowbans your tweet and then the FBI flags it as potential terrorism so they contact your bank who drops you and then contacts your employer who fires you.
Then your mortgage lender hears about what your bank did, and you losing your job, so they kick you out of your home.
No government action, no due process, no nothing.
That’s what’s coming.
Robert Rand:
“… That sounds like gaslighting to someone who works with corporate attorneys. Every single word and punctuation mark is approved by legal and corporate before release. “Never intended to be inserted” isn’t a thing …”
Mr Rand is VERY fortunate to have avoided dealing with government mandated affirmative action & quota “attorneys” – in addition to the terrible, horrible woke corporate board clowns.
It is certain “they” collectively agreed and celebrated this threat, I mean, warning as being the perfect fix to eliminate “wrong-think” … then … the bean counters found out … LOL!
Keep Canceling PayPal Patriots!!!
I agree that voting with your dollars or voting with your feet is important. In some ways it’s just as important, or even more important, than what politicians you vote for.
Elections can be stolen and politicians can be bought off. Oftentimes, politicians are bought off by companies and wealthy business owners and executives using the very same money that we the people spend at their companies.
There is a town near me that recently imposed a woke bag fee on single use paper and plastic shopping bags. Since I strongly oppose this policy, I made the decision to vote with my dollars by instead shopping in the numerous nearby towns that don’t have a bag fee.
Sadly, but not surprisingly, it seems that few other people joined me in personally boycotting this town. The stores there are just as busy as before the bag fee was imposed.
Even though I’m only one of a few people to actually change my buying habits as a result of this bag fee, I will continue to avoid shopping in this town until it repeals its bag fee. If it never repeals this bag fee, then I’ll never shop there again. It’s as simple as that.
More people need to understand and appreciate the power of voting with their dollars and act accordingly.