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PayPal quietly re-adds $2,500 “misinformation charge” in user agreement

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The fact they said it was "mistakenly added" to a policy document that had to go through multiple layers of management and lawyers before becoming public makes it hard to believe it was ever an accident. I'm more curious who is lobbying for such a condition in the first place.

This is primarily a way for PayPal to take money from people, but it is also a way to bully people that PayPal is mistreating into silence: not worth getting dinged $2,500 every time you post a tweet critical of PayPal for stealing from you

Or a way to avoid platforms that are only viable by producing misinformation.

ESG is more than likely the cause - https://investor.pypl.com/esg-strategy/default.aspx

Can you elaborate? I don't feel like gesturing broadly at a concept is really making whatever point you intend to make.

> We strive to ensure our platform is safe and secure for all to use and expect all customers to comply with our Acceptable Use Policy, which outlines prohibited activities and conduct, including the use of our services to promote hate, violence and intolerance (including racial intolerance). We take this responsibility seriously and conduct independent investigations of product misuse using all available information, while also working to proactively identify instances of noncompliance.

https://s26.q4cdn.com/519805829/files/doc_downloads/PayPal-2...

> Compliant, ethical & humane use of our products

I couldn't find a good article talking about the topic that was from a vaguely neutral site, so I've simply linked directly to the user agreement. Search for "$2,500" and you'll find the paragraph which is almost exactly (or perhaps exactly) the same as the original language that they said was added "by mistake" a few weeks ago.

That would be this paragraph in an archive from today https://archive.ph/mC1Yr#selection-3685.0-3685.1091

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33348913

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