PayPal Still Threatens $2500 Fines for Promoting “Discriminatory” “Intolerance” (Even if Not “Misinformation”)

So if PayPal “in [its] sole discretion” concludes that you’re using PayPal “for activities that & relate to transactions involving & promotion of” “discriminatory” “intolerance” presumably including distributing publications, or for that matter buying publications (since that’s an activity related to transactions involving the promotion of certain views) it can just take $2500 straight from your account.

Might you, for instance, be sharply criticizing a religion? Or saying things that sharply condemn, say, government officials (police, FBI, etc.) in ways that some might say involve “promotion of hate”? Or praising people who have acted violently (e.g., in what you think is justifiable self-defense, or defense of others, or even war or revolution)? If PayPal thinks it’s bad, it’ll just take your money.

via reason.com

ICYMI.