Paypal deciding they can take your money if they decide you posted "misinformation"

[TradArcher]

https://bgr.com/business/new-paypal...from-your-account-for-sharing-misinformation/

Anyone else come across this? Apparently they could take large amounts of money from your paypal account if they decided you posted misinformation on the interwebs.

Pretty scary and I am considering deleting my paypal but also wondering if anyone else came across this info?

 

[Bubblehide]

You're late to the party

 

[Steve O]

And I just read a statement from PP that was sent out “in error” just a few minutes ago.

 

[*zap*]

Do not keep $ in PayPal or link anything to PayPal.

 

[TradArcher]

And I just read a statement from PP that was sent out “in error” just a few minutes ago.

Yes - but if you read the agreement it's still in there.

 

[CorbLand]

And I just read a statement from PP that was sent out “in error” just a few minutes ago.

The only “error” on PayPals side was that people found out and pushed back on it.

 

[MuleDeerMike]

How was it sent in error? It was drafted up which is bad enough. Sent in error at this specific time maybe.

 

[Blowdowner]

Are we fine if we have a linked bank account with $ but no balance sitting in PayPal?

 

[ODB]

How was it sent in error? It was drafted up which is bad enough. Sent in error at this specific time maybe.

There is no such thing. As a guy who has sent emails on behalf of a global company, meaning I was responsible for programming and hitting the send button, I can tell you the mistake here was only that they failed to anticipate the pushback. I once sent an email to 50k people on behalf of a VP who had supposedly vetted the info, only to have the CEO shit the bed when he saw the info was completely incorrect.

He requested I send a follow up email blaming the incorrect info on a “programming” error. Only an idiot would believe that, and I told them as such. They still did it.

 

[Roosterstraw]

One step closer to the social credit system. Do they have a competitor that doesn’t infringe on the 1A?

 

[ManyBullets]

Some of you better think twice about the misinformation you're posting about your BOALs. . . could get expensive if PP finds out

 

[FLATHEAD]

I've never used PayPal.
But if I did, I would stop.
Tell them they could KMCA.

 

[Boarmaster]

Everyone has different needs but I said goodbye to PP over a decade ago. I have gotten by just fine.
If I have be concerned then I go the other way.

 

[roadrunner]

They can't just reach into a bank account and pull money. Kind of a theft thing.

 

[robertchutch]

How was it sent in error? It was drafted up which is bad enough. Sent in error at this specific time maybe.

nah man someone dropped their keyboard and it just posted itself

 

[robertchutch]

One step closer to the social credit system. Do they have a competitor that doesn’t infringe on the 1A?

Pretty much already there. Anyones livelihood is one SPLC or ADL tweet away from going away

 

[bozeman]

I'm sure PayPal will miss all 8 of those who leave.......

 

[isItFallYet]

I'm sure PayPal will miss all 8 of those who leave.......

Make that 9. In all honesty, they must have had some type of exodus to send a new message out.

 

[Travis Bertrand]

I heard this morning they reversed this policy as of this morning. I hope its true.

 

[5MilesBack]

They might have had some merit to it if this was only for someone totally misrepresenting some product they were selling, and someone paid via PP. But they can't just go and take money from people that don't have the same warped views and bad information that they have.