Yesterday, we told you about PayPal, Venmo, and Google punishing Gays Against Groomers for the crime of … trying to protect children from medical and sexual abuse? We’re still not really clear on what, exactly, Gays Against Groomers has done to merit such punitive action. Do these companies really have that big a problem with advocates for children? We’re really starting to wonder.
See, PayPal has apparently been pretty busy cracking down on at least one other pro-children advocacy group across the pond. UsForThem has fought against school closures in the time of COVID, and group cofounder Molly Kingsley revealed that PayPal, in PayPal’s words, “placed a permanent limitation on [UsForThem’s] account.”
Watch:
PayPal has shut the account of parents' group UsForThem that campaigned to keep schools open during the pandemic.
Co-founder Molly Kingsley: "Anyone that dares challenge the orthodoxy gets slated, smeared and abused and it's a horrible atmosphere."@JuliaHB1 | @UsforThemUK pic.twitter.com/4Gk5u8yRra
— TalkTV (@TalkTV) September 22, 2022
Shame on PayPal.
you're pathetic, @PayPal https://t.co/dhTKBuNl7h
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 22, 2022
Pathetic … and busy, evidently. UsForThem isn’t the only U.K. organization that’s been hit by PayPal with suspensions:
PayPal has shut down the account of the Free Speech Union.
Financial services being withdrawn from people is the new battlefront in the ongoing war against #freespeech.
Make your feelings known by submitting a complaint about UK PayPal's actions here.
➡️https://t.co/MGreLyOiro pic.twitter.com/qh2uLnaNxs
— The Free Speech Union (@SpeechUnion) September 21, 2022
Over the past few days, @PayPal has demonetised the following organisations: the Free Speech Union, @LD_Sceptics, @UsforThemUK and @laworfiction.
Financial services being withdrawn from people is the new battlefront in the ongoing war against #freespeech. https://t.co/NmhECdRrIB
— The Free Speech Union (@SpeechUnion) September 21, 2022
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This is a genuine outrage. PayPal is free to do shut down any accounts they want to shut down, of course. But — at least until companies can start shutting us down — we’re free to call them out on their decidedly authoritarianish behavior.
Deeply sinister by @PayPal There can be no justification for this. https://t.co/SLdctJIren
— Isabel Oakeshott (@IsabelOakeshott) September 22, 2022
This is not an isolated case. It seems PayPal is being weaponised against those who question and do not support the official narratives and agenda. https://t.co/QXCQO2so1G
— Southern Man NZ (@PaganTri) September 22, 2022
When does it stop?
next step the regime takes: freezing dissent from the financial system. https://t.co/D2yULieIbc
— Logan Hall (@loganclarkhall) September 22, 2022
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