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Got clue, ThoseShirts???
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Like a lot of you, Denizens, I’ve used PayPal in the past.  Used it to pay for everything from 3rd-rate dating sites (yeah, I’m looking at you, Date.com)…
MRS. VENOMOUS:  WHAT?!?!?!!!1!!ONE?!!1???!  (picks up skillet)
VENOMOUS:  Would you relax, honey?  This was before I met you.
MRS. VENOMOUS:  Hmf.  (puts skillet down)
See what I gotta put up with around here?
Anyway, third-rate dating sites to sending Emperor Misha the occasional stipend for…well, for just being Emperor and so he can take the Brood™ out to dinner every so often.  Plus, he’s a helluva friend.
But, as usual, I digress.  PayPal just lost my business.  And this is why.
Paypal is calling Atlas a “hate” site and will close my account if I do not remove the paypal option from my website. Accurate reporting and news is hate.
Truth is the new hate speech:
[…]
Dear Pamela Geller,
We appreciate the fact that you chose PayPal to send and receive payments
for your transactions.
However, after a recent review of your account, it has been determined that
you are currently in violation of PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy. Under
the Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive
payments for items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance or the
financial exploitation of a crime.
The complete Acceptable Use Policy can be found at the following URL:
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=ua/AcceptableUse_full&locale.x=en_US
To learn more about the Acceptable Use Policy, please refer to our Help
Center page here: https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?&cmd=_help
We are hereby notifying you that it has been determined that you are in
violation of PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy regarding payments received
from website: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/.
This is what speaking the truth gets you now:  Blacklisted by those who supposedly want our business.
(SIDE NOTE:  I filed this under “Islamonazism-ery” because it’s very likely that a complaint from some jihadist pussy is fueling this bullshit action against Pamela.  Don’t like it, ragheads?  Come tell me to my face, chickenshits.)
Commenter Pasadena Phil at this Gates Of Vienna thread (actual comment here), went so far as to cancel his account and tell them why.  So, I took the liberty of a little cut-&-paste job and followed suit, emailing PayPal thusly:
It has just come to my attention that PayPal is now engaging in the punitive and politically lopsided practice of canceling PayPal accounts from online news and blogging sites that it deems “hate sites”. It came to my attention because one of those sites is Pamela Geller’s very respected and popular “Atlas Shrugs”. I am very concerned about this because it is not PayPal’s business to play politics nor is it good business. And to show what a very bad idea your policy is, I want to cancel my account. I have other alternatives than to subsidize yet another Marxist online company.
I suggest you do likewise.  Demonstrate to PayPal just what folly it is to don Islamo-kneepads at the expense of pissing off their customer base.
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I could be wrong on this but I though PayPal was still owned by the loving overlords at AOhelL. Which means there’s Californicat-wonkery going on at PayPal too. Guess it’s time to close my account there too. Haven’t used it in ages anyway.