Re: New PayPal Policy Lets Company Pull $2,500 From Users' Accounts If They Promote 'Misinformation'

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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.”




The company’s current acceptable use policy does not mention
such activities. The Daily Wire reached out to PayPal for
definitions of the added terms, although no response was
received in time for publication.

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The policy applies to actions taken using PayPal’s platform.

Deliberations will be made at the “sole discretion” of PayPal
and may subject the user to “damages” — including the removal of
$2,500 “debited directly from your PayPal account” per offense.
The company’s user agreement contains a provision in which
account holders acknowledge that the figure is “presently a
reasonable minimum estimate of PayPal’s actual damages” due to
the administrative cost of tracking violations and damage to the
company’s reputation.

“Under existing law, PayPal has the ability as a private company
to implement this type of viewpoint-discriminatory policy,”
Aaron Terr, a senior program officer at the Foundation for
Individual Rights and Expression, explained to The Daily Wire.
“Whatever motivation PayPal has for establishing these vague new
categories of prohibited expression, they will almost certainly
have a severe chilling effect on users’ speech. As is often the
case with ill-defined and viewpoint-discriminatory speech codes,
those with unpopular or minority viewpoints will likely bear the
brunt of these restrictions.”

The move comes days after PayPal canceled three accounts linked
to Toby Young, a commentator who runs a nonprofit called Free
Speech Union. The organization has defended clients such as
actor and comedian Russell Brand, who recently moved his show
from YouTube to Rumble in reaction to censorship from the former
platform.

Roughly one-third of Free Speech Union members rely upon PayPal
to process their membership dues — although the company gave no
explanation to Young for the suspension beyond mentioning a
breach of the acceptable use policy. PayPal later restored the
accounts after receiving criticism from lawmakers and apologized
to Young for “any inconvenience caused,” according to a report
from The Telegraph.

Platforms such as Amazon, Twitter, and Facebook have formerly
censored conservatives and others who subscribe to heterodox
positions on controversial social issues, including
transgenderism and homosexuality. GoFundMe seized millions in
funds raised for trucker protests in Canada earlier this year,
while Google recently began suppressing search results for
crisis pregnancy centers.

“These kinds of policies are unwise, threaten free speech, and
invite legal risk,” Jeremy Tedesco, vice president of corporate
engagement at Alliance Defending Freedom, told The Daily Wire.
“When companies apply policies to restrict the religious speech
of their customers, they could run afoul of prohibitions on
religious discrimination that exist in many state and federal
laws.”

PayPal has also sanctioned Gays Against Groomers, a group that
opposes the sexualization of children, as well as evolutionary
biologist Colin Wright and journalist Ian Miles Cheong. The
company featured a rainbow-colored banner on its social media
platforms during the month of June affirming that the platform
is “open for all” — and PayPal U.K. still sports the banner.

“Whatever PayPal’s intentions may be, censorship and chilling
free speech is precisely the effect of these kinds of vaguely
worded policies,” Tedesco added. “We’ve seen social media
companies use similar policies to stifle free speech on their
platforms. We can expect a similar outcome with PayPal.”

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to clarify actions
to which the updated policy appears to apply

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market prospect?

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philosophies and policies?