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Paypal Freezes ProtonMail Campaign Funds

32 points by jamesbritt 12y ago

growse 12y ago
"Like many others, we have all heard the PayPal horror stories, but didn’t actually think it would happen to us on our campaign since PayPal promised, very recently, to improve their policies." The naivety is strong here.
- teekert 12y ago
  Glad I donated in BTC. Does Paypal own a lot of Bitcoins? They sure make an effort out of highlighting bitcoin's advantages.
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The second meeting took place in October 1988 at a summer resort in Western Virginia, sad and grey this particular autumn. The Americans turned up in force. Bill Bostwick, from the Department of Energy was the Chairman, Barry Leiner from the Department of Defense and Vint Cerf were present. The European representatives were thin on the ground: a German and British representative plus Francois Flückiger. In 1991, 80% of the internet capacity in Europe for international traffic was installed at CERN, in building 513.
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campuscodi 12y ago
An excerpt from a Softpedia article on his topic: "the payment processor questioned the legality of ProtonMail and inquired about having government approval to encrypt emails." OK. So now I'm 100% convinced this company is a slave to the US government and it's probably ran by money-hungry apes.
balladeer 12y ago
PayPal does it again. It had previously done it "again", on many occasions. I just don't understand how people keep going back to an organisation like PayPal, or GoDaddy which practically mean "horror stories".
honksillet 12y ago
Could this have anything to do with Operation Choke Point? http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/05/24/operation-choke-point/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014...
anujnayar 12y ago
Its Anuj from PayPal here. We made a mistake. I just spoke with one of the guys at ProtonMail and apologized on behalf of the company. We fixed it as soon as we were made aware.

32 points by jamesbritt 12y ago

"Like many others, we have all heard the PayPal horror stories, but didn’t actually think it would happen to us on our campaign since PayPal promised, very recently, to improve their policies." The naivety is strong here.

teekert 12y ago
Glad I donated in BTC. Does Paypal own a lot of Bitcoins? They sure make an effort out of highlighting bitcoin's advantages.

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The second meeting took place in October 1988 at a summer resort in Western Virginia, sad and grey this particular autumn. The Americans turned up in force. Bill Bostwick, from the Department of Energy was the Chairman, Barry Leiner from the Department of Defense and Vint Cerf were present. The European representatives were thin on the ground: a German and British representative plus Francois Flückiger. In 1991, 80% of the internet capacity in Europe for international traffic was installed at CERN, in building 513.

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campuscodi 12y ago

An excerpt from a Softpedia article on his topic: "the payment processor questioned the legality of ProtonMail and inquired about having government approval to encrypt emails." OK. So now I'm 100% convinced this company is a slave to the US government and it's probably ran by money-hungry apes.

balladeer 12y ago

PayPal does it again. It had previously done it "again", on many occasions. I just don't understand how people keep going back to an organisation like PayPal, or GoDaddy which practically mean "horror stories".

honksillet 12y ago

Could this have anything to do with Operation Choke Point? http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/05/24/operation-choke-point/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014...

anujnayar 12y ago

Its Anuj from PayPal here. We made a mistake. I just spoke with one of the guys at ProtonMail and apologized on behalf of the company. We fixed it as soon as we were made aware.