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PayPal's new AUP can take your money if you say something they disagree with
- jitl 4y agoHow many separate posts do we need about this?
- moralestapia 4y agoI just came to know about this, because of this post, so I thank OP for submitting.
- rolph 4y agoif it [dupes] actually becomes a problem, they will likely be merged and moderated
- lpolovets 4y agoI closed my PayPal account immediately when I saw this. I'll stop using Venmo, too, just in case, since they are PayPal-owned. If you care about freedom of expression, there are enough good payment providers out there that switching shouldn't be hard.
- etimberg 4y agoSame. I never used it anyway
- AlchemistCamp 4y agoMore comments on a recent thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33134249 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33134249
- greenyoda 4y agoAnd a very big discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33062320 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33062320
- AlchemistCamp 4y agoOh, I missed that one. Thanks!
- ZoomerCretin 4y agoPayPal expands terms of service to give themselves more ambiguous reasons to freeze your account and take your money. More news at 11. Seriously, PayPal's reputation has been ruined for over 10 years at this point. If this is your first indication to drop them, you're very far behind the curve.
- max_ 4y agoArbitrary use of power[0] is to be expected from centralized payment processors like PayPal, Stripe. While crypto currencies like Bitcoin have their shortcomings. They do solve for this. [0]: https://thelawdictionary.org/arbitrary-power/ https://thelawdictionary.org/arbitrary-power/
- seydor 4y agoPolitical power has been giving way to private interests since the 90s. It seems lately that this is accelerating in bursts. The list of private governments included the media and NGOs , nowadays we should add social networks and payment mediators. Eventually we ll get to the corporate government we always wanted
- flamesofphx 4y agoThere gone, was only using it for minor things...