Is PayPal violating its own anti-racism policy?
PayPal remains the biggest conduit for online payments, but its Acceptable Use Policy rules out whole classes of business. Most verboten dealings are illegal, like selling stolen goods; others are risqué, such as “items that are considered obscene.” PayPal also prohibits customers promoting “hate” or “racial intolerance.” But as I learned reporting on tech companies’ involvement with controversial sites, several PayPal customers are classified as “hate groups” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Examples include:
Vanguard America: Which advocates replacing the United States with a fascist empire.
Mission to Israel: Whose founder teaches that white Europeans, not Jews, are the descendants of Israel.
National Policy Institute (NPI): White nationalist/supremacist organization headed by alt-right scion Richard Spencer.
Radix Journal: NPI’s publication, with articles criticizing Jews and arguing the genetic superiority of whites.
PayPal remains the biggest conduit for online payments, but its Acceptable Use Policy rules out whole classes of business. Most verboten dealings are illegal, like selling stolen goods; others are risqué, such as “items that are considered obscene.” PayPal also prohibits customers promoting “hate” or “racial intolerance.” But as I learned reporting on tech companies’ involvement with controversial sites, several PayPal customers are classified as “hate groups” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). PayPal remains the biggest conduit for online payments, but its Acceptable Use Policy rules out whole classes of business. Most verboten dealings are illegal, like selling stolen goods; others are risqué, such as “items that are considered obscene.” PayPal also prohibits customers promoting “hate” or “racial intolerance.” But as I learned reporting on tech companies’ involvement with controversial sites, several PayPal customers are classified as “hate groups” by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). PayPal remains the biggest conduit for online payments, but its Acceptable Use Policy rules out whole classes of business. Most verboten dealings are illegal, like