Controversy has arisen, as PayPal has recently announced that it is going to be initiating a partnership with the Anti-Defamation League, which ironically exists entirely to defame people. This partnership’s goal is to combat “extremists” and “protect marginalized communities,” and will “focus on uncovering and disrupting the financial pipelines that support extremist and hate movements.”
This comes after wave after wave of increasing levels of censorship on the Big Tech platforms, as openly directed by the Biden administration. Whitehouse Press Secretary Jen Psaki for example on July 15th said that “we’re (the administration) flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation,” and after Facebook introduced new protocols that try to get friends and family members to report to them if they think someone that they know is becoming a “domestic violent extremist,” not unlike the reporting system that existed in East Germany, and it now notifies people if they were exposed to “extremist content.”
Unsurprisingly, the NGO that Facebook partnered with for this called “Life After Hate” which is focused on the “violent far-right. Facebook’s censorship campaigns have disproportionately targeted right-wing content, including the more libertarian-leaning “boogaloo” people and QAnon conspiracy theorists, and it is so evidently clear that these rules are not being enforced consistently since the illegal ban of President Donald Trump has happened free from a consequence on every major platform.
Big Tech is known not to enforce hate speech guidelines accurately or consistently, and the groups responsible, including left-wing NGOs like the ADL, SPLC, and now Life After Hate, are now involved in campaigns with financial services like PayPal. If they can ban Donald Trump from social media, they can ban you. If they can put Nick Fuentes on the no-fly list, freeze his assets and ban him from PayPal they can do it to you, and this new partnership between PayPal and Life After Hate makes one thing clear: they fully intend on doing just that.
If you are authentically right-wing, PayPal is coming for you. They don’t want you to be allowed to make money. These people want us to struggle, using backchannels for everything from simple free speech, free association, free-market exchange, and political activism.
By: Bloo
