The little money that Atlas generates (I have no large donors) is about to be cut off. Apparently the jihad is hard at work trying to kill free speech (and the bus ads and the 911 no mosque movement), preventing the truth from making its way to those in pursuit of it. Paypal contributions help pay for bus ads, rallies, live coverage (everything), and I so much as said so when asked repeatedly by the press who paid for the bus ads. Readers do and did.
Paypal is calling Atlas a "hate" site and will close my account if I do not remove the paypal option from my website. Accurate reporting and news is hate.
Truth is the new hate speech:
Please email or call paypal and let them know Atlas Shrugs is a news site and political blog. I am not responsible for the bad news in the world. I just report.
Great, another lawsuit. Want to make a contribution to my fight?
Mail a check to Pamela Geller, PO Box 121, 1040 1st Avenue, NY NY 10022. Until I beat those pathetic Paypal pussies. Unbelievable.
If you want to send an email directly to the Acceptable Use Policy Department, here is the email address: aupviolations@paypal.com. (hat tip Daryl)
continues with more comments screencaps, updates and links. The blogoshere looks to be lighting up over this.
Too bad that after I edited and just before I was going to upload this, I checked back and paypal had caved!
All the links to the pages seen there are in the vid description, including the one's to the hilarious newish paypal communty forums.
"As many of you know, on Friday of last week, my paypal account was "restricted." After a recent review of my account they said, "it has been determined" that I was "currently in violation of PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy. Under the Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance or the financial exploitation of a crime."
Huh?
I posted it over the weekend and received over a thousand letters of support, hundreds of ccs of paypal account cancellations........ the people spoke. Love that.
And so today, about an hour ago, a very pleasant and rather deliberately clueless executive called me from paypal to say it was all a big misunderstanding and Atlas would be reinstated (and the subsequent restriction of SIOA and FDI removed also).
I just happened to recall a somewhat related case of maximum troll pwnage which occured right here on the humble CAPP forum quite a while ago. bwhahahhahahahahahaaaaa! rotfolololololololololololomfg!
I just happened to recall a somewhat related case of maximum troll pwnage which occured right here on the humble CAPP forum quite a while ago. bwhahahhahahahahahaaaaa! rotfolololololololololololomfg!
I just happened to recall a somewhat related case of maximum troll pwnage which occured right here on the humble CAPP forum quite a while ago. bwhahahhahahahahahaaaaa! rotfolololololololololololomfg!
Now just a word if anyone from sleazebay or jhihad-pal is reading here; you better understand that when folks hear about this in real life, their blood boils. You can be very sure not one of them will ever use your services again. And lots and lots of people have and shall be hearing of this, in the real world, where your miserable rep is getting worse by the day. So keep up the good work. You are you own worst enemy.
Well it looks like this issue must be annoying Paypal or something, because every site they can, is being blacklisted. The ones they cannot blacklist are being spoofed and malware is being served up.
On standard browser I get the FF attack site warning page. On my special browser, the site is fine. No malware, no nothing. No elements which they claim are malicious on the google safe browsing tool page.
All I can do is laugh my @$$ off because everyone who learns of this is entire situation is getting very upset. Blackballing and/or spoofing those sites is only going to make matters worse for our 'pals'.
I wouldn't be surprised if something 'funny' happens to them either on the web or IRL. Or both.
-- Edited by budnonymous on Wednesday 30th of June 2010 03:11:41 PM
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I just happened to recall a somewhat related case of maximum troll pwnage which occured right here on the humble CAPP forum quite a while ago. bwhahahhahahahahahaaaaa! rotfolololololololololololomfg!