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This is always where we were headed :(

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PayPal recently canceled me, too! I wrote about it in the updates of my last post:

https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/i/71065626/paypal-unpersoned-me

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I'm highly in favor of decentralizing payment processing and a great deal of internet infrastructure. It is a mistake to think that is all that is required however. The truth is that it's people tolerance (or even appetite for) censorship that allows it to flourish.

Fighting to find alternatives is a cat-and-mouse game. To challenge these measures head-on, people must make the public intolerant of censorship.

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I don't use things like PayPal etc.

My worry is the banks I do use are almost the same any more

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Sep 21, 2022Liked by Joel Smalley

ive no idea but whats the betting payscum™ are connected to wef or blackrock or whatever

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Sep 21, 2022Liked by Joel Smalley

Here is the message I sent to PayPal

I’m shocked at the orgulho of deletion of accounts and demonetization of PayPal accounts wherever I turn! Your policies of harsh discrimination against everyone that does not comply with the establishment lies and disgraceful conduct and denounce it, you immediately act against them! I hear that in the UK and here in Germany a lot.

Your trampling on people’s rights to have their own opinion is past bordering tyrannical.

I do hope people take action against your completely discriminatory policy of not allowing anyone to protest against this very corrupt system. But the fact that you do unmask the very corruption inside PayPal as well.

Here are just a few of the accounts you have tyrannically acted against:

@BorisReitschuster @speechunion @LD_Sceptics & @toadmeister

To name a few only. The world is watching this development.

What could you possibly justify to act against these accounts?

Stop protecting a corrupt system against those that are speaking against it. Restitute all these accounts with full rights. Gofundme has lost a lot of business to givesendgo because such corrupt arbitrary policies. I hope you guys do the right thing for once.

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You can't do business with Paypal. That's pretty much the end of the story. Everyone should cancel their account, as I did after they nuked Amazing Polly. Never going back. Vote with your dollars.

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I’m sure Pay pal has a list. I give to an orphanage in Pakistan and a friend who’s sick on disability and her car broke down. Anyway it’s terrible, they lost my respect during the Canadian truckers debacle, freezing accounts & basically stealing.

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I use Paypal about once a month to receive or send money. I do not pay for an account officially and I do not keep any money in Paypal. But I will now completely stop using it. It was requested by others that I use it, I do not like trusting a private company for money transactions processing anyway. Best

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This is not new, it has been going on since 2017. Youtube has done this before, and kept the money in the accounts! Patreon has also, and that's the reason it's called Hatreon. There are many kinds of censorship, this is just one. For 300+ more examples of censorship see https://wordsalad.info/tag-censorship.html and search for company names like Youtube, Reddit, Patreon, etc.

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“We’re all in this together?” Paypal, Fakebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc…I won’t grovel at the alter of these tyrants. They don’t care about you. They’ll go bankrupt instead of giving an inch to anyone with an alternative view. Unfortunately, fascism is ensconced in the World Wide Web. Remember how the internet was going to “free” us? Nice joke.

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How about we just debank them? Don't use them. I know it makes life harder, but write a damn check. Send a money order. People can set up boxes or addressess that are not directly traceable.

Catherein Austin Fitts has it right. CASH or CHECK at all times.

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I’ve debanked PayPal and taken my billions elsewhere! 😉

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ESG is here!

Wake up or more than the hip pockets will be hurt!

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UsForThem have also been punished by PayPal, in their case for the crime of putting children first.

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Thank you Joel. Just deleted my PayPal account.

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