{"id":2912,"date":"2019-06-08T19:07:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T23:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2019-06-08T19:08:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T23:08:55","slug":"take-action-against-paypals-blacklisting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=2912","title":{"rendered":"Take action against Paypal’s blacklisting of VDARE!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Take action against Paypal’s blacklisting Of VDARE!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Back in March, I posted \u201cPATRIOTS HAVE RIGHTS. THEY HAVE JUST NOT ORGANIZED TO DEFEND THEM\u2014UNTIL NOW<\/a>\u201d, explaining how VDARE.com has been forced to enter the nightmare world of litigation because of the Totalitarian Left\u2019s unprecedented Reign of Terror, enabled in large part by various complicit private corporations. I announced the launch of our\u00a0Legal Defense Fund<\/a>\u2014many thanks to those patriots who donated (tax-deductibly!), and also to our lawyer readers who offered advice.<\/p>\n

I recently\u00a0updated\u00a0<\/a>readers on VDARE.com\u2019s First Amendment suit against Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers for his role in the 2017 cancellation of our projected conference there. Again, our lawyers expect this to go to trial, and quite possibly to the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

But now I want to discuss a narrower but equally important case: our complaint against the credit card processer PayPal for\u00a0suddenly and arbitrarily cutting VDARE.com off<\/a>\u00a0from receiving donations, after a business relationship of more than ten years, in August 2017. Our Notice of Dispute, required by PayPal\u2019s User Agreement, is here. [PDF<\/a>]<\/p>\n

PayPal has still not, despite our repeated requests, explained why it cut us off. Our Notice of Dispute documents our interactions with various puzzled PayPal employees who had obviously believed they worked for a politically impartial entity in a free country.<\/p>\n

It appears they were wrong.<\/p>\n

However, PayPal did ban us days after the August 12, 2017 Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville VA. And PayPal CEO Dan Schulman has admitted this event provoked him to blacklist various conservative accounts. Presumably this was PayPal\u2019s reason, although\u00a0VDARE.com had nothing whatever to do with the UTR rally<\/em><\/strong>\u2014was not invited, did not promote it, did not attend.<\/p>\n

Nor, of course, did PayPal bother to check with VDARE.com about any possible alleged involvement with the UTR rally.<\/p>\n

Whether or not private corporations have the right to discriminate on political grounds\u2014remember, since the 1964 Civil Rights Act, they do not have the right to discriminate on racial grounds\u2014is emerging as a major political issue, given the unprecedented and unrestrained backlash to President Trump\u2019s 2016 election victory.<\/p>\n

(But in California, where PayPal is based, political discrimination is banned under the Unruh Act. We welcome input from California lawyers!!!)<\/p>\n

VDARE.com\u2019s case against PayPal, however, focuses on a narrower issue. When PayPal cut VDARE.com off without warning, it also destroyed a significant flow of recurring donations, including from many donors who had signed up for our hard-copy\u00a0VDARE QUARTERLY<\/a>. Because VDARE.com was given absolutely no chance to transfer these recurring donations to its backup processor\u2014which it could easily have done\u2014it has still not yet been able to restore this significant revenue flow.<\/p>\n

In addition, incredibly, PayPal then proceeded to send false and harassing emails to our former recurring donors demanding that they \u201cpay what they owe.\u201d And PayPal refused to explain this demand to these donors, just as it has refused to explain to VDARE.com why it has cut us off.<\/p>\n

Of course this has been immensely damaging to our relationship with these donors, most of whom have naturally not thought to contact us directly.<\/p>\n

PayPal has not yet responded to VDARE.com\u2019s Notice Of Dispute. If they do not, we will have to initiate the Arbitration process by mid August.<\/p>\n

This is a crusade, not merely for VDARE.com. but for all the patriots who have been cut off by PayPal and other payment processor during the current Reign Of Terror\u2014and, ultimately, against all the Corporate Cultural Marxists who believe they have the right run America.<\/p>\n

But it will be expensive. We need your help\u00a0now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can give (tax-deductibly!) to VDARE\u2019s Legal Defense Fund by clicking the button\u00a0below. We will be reporting other litigation soon. You can even\u2014a new feature\u2014\u00a0earmark your donation for our suit against PayPal, or Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers, by checking the \u201cEarmark your Donation\u201d box and selecting a preference.<\/p>\n

Many thanks from all of us in the VDARE.com family.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

DONATE NOW<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
(Donations go to VDARE Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit. EIN 22-3691487)<\/p>\n

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