A devious plan was ruined this week when some darn internet kids pulled the mask off revealing Swamp Monster was actually just Old Man PayPal.
Okay not a perfect analogy but you enjoyed it right? The point is that PayPal put out a change to their Authorized Use terms which included not only banning un-woke speech but STEALING $2,500 directly from a person’s account for violating it.
And who got to decide what was unwoke? Only PayPal. So they, acting as a financial institution, could simply take your money, or your company’s money, if they basically just felt like, as punishment for speech they don’t like.
THAT’S THE LEFT’S MOST MOIST FANTASY CAKE.
This would abso-LUTE-ly have gone unnoticed or uncriticized without a simple chain of events. The Daily Wire noticed it and wrote about it. National Review wrote about the Daily Wire writing about. People on the right (and ONLY on the right) tweeted about it. Leading to former PayPal president David Marcus trading the policy, and PayPal co-founder Elon Musk agreeing.
It’s hard for me to openly criticize a company I used to love and gave so much to. But @PayPal’s new AUP goes against everything I believe in. A private company now gets to decide to take your money if you say something they disagree with. Insanity. https://t.co/Gzf8faChUb
— David Marcus (@davidmarcus) October 8, 2022
Agreed
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 8, 2022
And THAT free speech on social media stopped the evil outcome. PayPal reversed course and were running so scared they called it an error. They didn’t just retract – they disavowed.
JUST IN – PayPal spox on $2,500 fine: "An AUP notice recently went out in error that included incorrect information. PayPal is not fining people for misinformation and this language was never intended to be inserted in our policy… We’re sorry for the confusion this has caused."
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) October 8, 2022
AND THAT IS WHY PEOPLE WANT ELON MUSK TO BUY TWITTER.
Everyone wants to make Musk purchase about his party affiliation or feelings about Trump, but none of that is the thing. The actual thing is simple. Musk wants Twitter to quit censoring speech. He and some other tech titans want the Big Tech giants not to have control over what we see, hear, think, and are allowed to say.
They objected out loud to PayPal’s woke tax and it got reversed! There’s nothing else to know on this.
*(P.S.) Obviously lol at the disavowal.
No one accidentally publishes a policy where they steal $2,500 every time they say you spread misinformation or hurt the feelings of the pronoun brigade. They plan to do this when they know they can get away with it. Cancel your PayPal & Venmo accounts (they own Venmo). https://t.co/QYzTAxq0qZ
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 9, 2022
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