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Free Speech Union says it plans to challenge PayPal censorship with regulator appeal
After PayPal ignored all correspondence.
Germany investigates PayPal over market dominance, anti-competitive practices
Germany is also looking into other tech giants.
Baroness Claire Fox calls for UK legal protections against PayPal’s ideological censorship
Calls for legislation to protect financial companies cutting off customers they disagree with.
Elon Musk says PayPal is moving in the “direction of social credit”
The PayPal founder criticizes his former company.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau considers investigating PayPal over fining people for legal speech
PayPal says that it may fine users $2,500 for promoting “intolerance that is discriminatory.”
PayPal terminates account of Hong Kong Democracy Party
Another victim of PayPal censorship.
PayPal is still threatening to fine users $2,500 for promoting “intolerance that is discriminatory”
It may also fine users for promoting “hate.”
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PayPal backtracks on fining users for “misinformation,” calls it an “error”
But it remains to be seen if PayPal will punish users in other ways, like closing accounts.
PayPal to expand its speech restriction rules in November
An updated policy that pulls financial services from those that don’t adhere to its arbitrary speech limitations.
UK lawmakers want to block PayPal from shutting down accounts over political ideology
PayPal is closing accounts for what it believes is “misinformation.”