As Twitchy reported earlier, The Daily Wire on Thursday reported that PayPal’s new user policy included language that PayPal could pull $2,500 from a user’s account for “misinformation” or content that could hurt someone’s well-being. Now, a day later, PayPal has released a statement saying that the language about misinformation was misinformation and was never intended to be inserted into its new policy. And yet it was.
Re: this $2,500 PayPal misinfo fine “An AUP notice recently went out in error that included incorrect information. PayPal is not fining people for misinformation and this language was never intended to be inserted in our policy. Our teams are working to correct our policy pages…
— Lily Hay Newman (@lilyhnewman) October 8, 2022
We’re sorry for the confusion this has caused.”
— Lily Hay Newman (@lilyhnewman) October 8, 2022
Never intended pic.twitter.com/E3QnJkCE8u
— nevernudejorter 👺 (@nevernudejorter) October 8, 2022
How many lawyers did this have to go through before it was made public?
Somehow I doubt this was inserted by accident. It had to go through multiple layers of management and numerous lawyers before being published. It's that these people live in woke progressive echo chambers so they didn't expect the pushback.
— Adam Lowisz (@AdamLowisz) October 8, 2022
Have they explained how this strange, egregious error may have occured? Were they hacked, like Joy Reid?
— Rex Ratio (Official) (@vermontaigne) October 8, 2022
They weren’t hacked, they were exposed.
— David 🐊 #FloridaStrong (@Fl0ridaBoy74) October 8, 2022
Translation: enough users closed accounts that it crashed their system.
— Wakko Warner (@tjztyger) October 8, 2022
I’m sure it was just a mistake. AUPs are usually just thrown together by the new interns. I’m sure no company attorneys review them before rolling them out.
— Old School Observer (@GusB08055982) October 8, 2022
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Too bad. I closed my account and never using it again @PayPal
— Underground ✝️🇺🇸 (@shannon4t76) October 8, 2022
Yeah. Still going to close my account though. That it existed is problematic.
— Sentinel (@Sentine70766346) October 8, 2022
Will PayPal fine themselves $2,500 for providing misinformation?
— Filmtorres (@filmtorres) October 8, 2022
Well how did that language get there???
— Montoya (@MidwitMilhouse) October 8, 2022
"This language was never intended" …this language had to go through legal review a handful of times before someone posted it.
— Alice Vaughn (@RationalBlonde) October 8, 2022
https://twitter.com/corndalorian/status/1578853603024199680
PAYPAL: "We are sorry for the confusion as we hoped this would go unnoticed. Please understand we will rescind this policy and reintroduce it again when the time is right."
— Jack O'Neill (@Jack2LOneill) October 8, 2022
Well, someone wrote that in the policy, so I’m going to assume it’s in their plans, and it’s wrong.
— Batalysta (@batalysta) October 8, 2022
How the hell was it even written down if it wasn't intended to be included?
— ARandomName (@ARandomName68) October 8, 2022
People should delete their accounts just in case. There’s nothing preventing them from implementing this in the future. I didn’t use mine much but who wants their bank account connected to the mercy of these tech companies anyway.
— mike58520 (@mike58520) October 8, 2022
You just don’t accidentally put that kind of language in there. You meant it to be there, got caught and now are doing clean up.
— Corey (@greensandfrways) October 8, 2022
The fact is was even considered is enough for me.
— MostlyHarmless (@harmless_human) October 8, 2022
Someone wrote it down, even if it was “never intended” to be included. Obviously, they floated the idea at a minimum.
Translation: "You caught us, so we're backing off for now, but once you're not looking, we'll do this through a back door."
— Tim Phares (@phares_tim) October 8, 2022
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PayPal says it can pull $2,500 from users’ accounts if they promote ‘misinformation’ https://t.co/sxTbfnt8h6
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 8, 2022