Paypal and other “big tech” and financial companies are partnering with leftist groups to cut off service with those who disagree with them. The Daily Caller reports:
Add a new company to the list of “big tech” entities that have promised to cut off conservatives: PayPal. Do you advocate for border security, call attention to anti-American groups and people, ask pointed questions of powerful politicians, or point out social media giant hypocrisy? No banking for you!
In a Monday interview with the Wall Street Journal, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman claimed that his company, which last year processed $578 billion in transactions, has partially outsourced the task of deciding which accounts to ban to the Southern Poverty Law Center. “There are those both on the right and left that help us. Southern Poverty Law Center has brought things. We don’t always agree,” Schulman said. (He didn’t name any similar groups on the right.)
Just last year, SPLC was forced to pay $3.375 million in damages and abjectly apologize for falsely claiming a man was an anti-Muslim extremist. By incorporating the hard bias of SPLC into its business model, Paypal cuts off a major avenue for financing nonprofit groups and writers on the right.
PayPal is not alone in gagging free speech through its political redlining. The David Horowitz Freedom Center’s donation processing services were discontinued by both Visa and Mastercard at the behest of the SPLC (though they later restored services after this action was exposed). Rebel Media’s Martina Markota was also recently banned by Chase, without explanation, as was the account of Joe Briggs, an Iraq War vet and Trump supporter. (Chase offered to reinstate Briggs’ account after other veterans threatened to pull their business.)
Under the guise of being a “tech” company, Paypal circumvents many regulations and is now violating the rights of Americans that the Left couldn’t do through the government. Dangerous times on the horizon…
Dangerous times on the horizon……..I couldn’t agree with you more.
Yes, Banks are colluding with the left because the Banks owe a very big debt of gratitude to Obama and these Democrats for giving them the $750, Billion Dollars back in 2008 because of the recession as the stimulus and the Banks built more Banks with the money and never used the money to reinforce our economy. These Banks should have been brought up on charges for that but nothing ever happened with that.
Time to find banking options outside the country, I guess.
This isn’t making a lot of sense to me. Shutting down back accounts held by lots of “conservatives” as reported on Twitter? That isn’t the most credible source of news. Are these flaming KKKers or white nationalists about which we’re hearing an edited version?
It is about conservatives, the KKKers were democommunists. Nationalism is patriotism. You probably meant white supremacists. Lots of ignorant people are interchanging nationalism and supremacism.
Well, this is probably true, because you can read on Twitter where a lot of conservative activists are having their accounts closed because of the mere fact that they are…conservatives. I’ve yet to see a post from a liberal complaining about his bank dumping him.
I said “Not sure” as to the Left being responsible…because I know it’s a fact that there are others behind the scenes that pull the “true” strings…be it Dem or Rep or anything in between. The manipulators let the huddled masses squabble between themselves, and I see the two groups (Dems & Reps) act buddy buddy and are quite “cozy” with each other at times. So I don’t put my Trust in any political party. Politics are dirty, and to think not is to be quite nieve/blinded , or outright fraudulent. I vote for those who “appear” the closest to my convictions, but I don’t swear allegiance with any political group. Same as religion…I’m Christian first over any denomination, or non or inter .
No, there are various front groups, like media matters, etc., that put pressure on these different entities, basically give them a ultimatum they can’t refuse. It’s pretty obvious to most people now that the left is violent and will use violence and intimidation to force entities to knuckle under. It’s communism 101.