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Stop pretending there isn't something horribly wrong with the company just because it suits your rhetoric. This sort of trollish nonsense has no place on HN.
by ergo98 16y ago
Stop pretending there isn't something horribly wrong with the company just because it suits your rhetoric.
This sort of trollish nonsense has no place on HN.
I built a banking AML system (not for PayPal, which is a company that I have zero affiliation or interest in). I know the incredible burden that the financial industry lives under, and to say that PayPal -- which is absolutely the wild-west of payment systems (it exists for a reason, often serving those organizations who in many cases would have had trouble getting a merchant account) -- goes "above and beyond" is patently ridiculous. No seriously, file that patent, because you nailed it.
Some subsection of users have trouble with a large organization. Big whoop.
- tptacek 16y agoConsider striking the first two sentences and the last sentence from this comment.
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- alnayyir 16y ago>Some subsection of users have trouble with a large organization. Big whoop. Quite an understatement. You seem unconvinced of the overwhelming number of people who have had issues with Paypal, and the relentless pain they had to endure just to get their money back, buyers and sellers both. I don't deny the existence of the regulations they have to abide, but Paypal isn't a bank and doesn't operate like one either. They're given a great deal of freedom in their contract to seize accounts at will. I would like to see the relevant law that Paypal was abiding by to seize Wikileak's account. There is no law, they did it of their own accord. I won't make any assertions about why but I'd say there are two or three guesses, of which at least one is close to the mark.