Thread: Paypal Cuts Off Atlas shrugs: Truth is the New Hate Speech

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Paypal Cuts Off Atlas: Truth is the New Hate Speech

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 it from making its way to those in pursuit of truth. 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)

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Subject: Notification of Limited Account Access RXI072
Date: 6/12/2010 10:56:46 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
From: service@paypal.com
Reply To: aup@paypal.com
To: writeatlas@aol.com

Dear Pamela Geller,

We appreciate the fact that you chose PayPal to send and receive payments for your transactions.

However, after a recent review of your account, it has been determined that you are 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.

The complete Acceptable Use Policy can be found at the following URL:
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/marke ... le.x=en_US

To learn more about the Acceptable Use Policy, please refer to our Help
Center page here: https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?&cmd=_help

We are hereby notifying you that it has been determined that you are in
violation of PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy regarding payments received
from website: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/.

Please refer to transaction #:
62V159922K894400X

In order to comply with the Acceptable Use Policy and avoid the limitation
or closure of your account, you will need to:

1. Remove PayPal as a payment option, as well as all references to
PayPal, including the PayPal logo and/or shopping cart, from your
website(s), http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/.

2. Submit the online Acceptable Use Policy affidavit.

To appeal your limitation, login to your account and select the "Resolution
Center" link. On the next page select the "Resolve" button(s) located in
the Steps to Provide More Information section and follow the applicable
instructions.

This is not intended to be an all-inclusive review or list of your Internet
sites in violation. Furthermore, the violations of the Policy described
above are not intended to be an all-inclusive list. It is the
responsibility of the user to ensure that all transactions comply with the
Acceptable Use Policy.

For more information about the status of your account, please log in to
your PayPal account.

We encourage you to login and return your account to good standing as soon
as possible. Failure to respond by 6/17/2010 will result in the further
escalation of this issue.

We appreciate your cooperation in this matter. Please understand that this
is a security measure meant to help protect you and your account. We
apologize for any inconvenience. If you have any questions, please contact
the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy Department at aup@paypal.com.

Sincerely,
PayPal Acceptable Use Policy Department
PayPal, an eBay Company

UPDATE: SIOA and FDI just got notified as well. There are no accidents. I said repeatedly in news stories that the money for the bus ads came from my websites -- that there were no large donors. So the global jihad, choking on petrodollars, is trying to shut down my little spigot.

Dear Pamela Geller,

We appreciate the fact that you chose PayPal to send and receive payments
for your transactions.

However, after a recent review of your account, it has been determined that
you are 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.

The complete Acceptable Use Policy can be found at the following URL:
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/marke ... le.x=en_US

To learn more about the Acceptable Use Policy, please refer to our Help
Center page here:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?&cmd=_help

We are hereby notifying you that it has been determined that you are in
violation of PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy regarding payments received
from websites: http://sioaonline.com/, http://freedomdefense.typepad.com/,
and http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/.

Please refer to transaction #:
4TB457320W669710M

In order to comply with the Acceptable Use Policy and avoid the limitation
or closure of your account, you will need to:

1. Remove PayPal as a payment option, as well as all references to
PayPal, including the PayPal logo and/or shopping cart, from your
website(s), http://sioaonline.com/, http://freedomdefense.typepad.com/,
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/.

2. Submit the online Acceptable Use Policy affidavit.

To appeal your limitation, login to your account and select the "Resolution
Center" link. On the next page select the "Resolve" button(s) located in
the Steps to Provide More Information section and follow the applicable
instructions.

This is not intended to be an all-inclusive review or list of your Internet
sites in violation. Furthermore, the violations of the Policy described
above are not intended to be an all-inclusive list. It is the
responsibility of the user to ensure that all transactions comply with the
Acceptable Use Policy.

For more information about the status of your account, please log in to
your PayPal account.

We encourage you to login and return your account to good standing as soon
as possible. Failure to respond by 6/17/2010 will result in the further
escalation of this issue.

We appreciate your cooperation in this matter. Please understand that this
is a security measure meant to help protect you and your account. We
apologize for any inconvenience. If you have any questions, please contact
the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy Department at aup@paypal.com.

Sincerely,
PayPal Acceptable Use Policy Department
PayPal, an eBay Company

UPDATE: Oh, the irony. Atlas reader Jon pints out that the inciters to violence and Jewish genocide, Revolution Muslim, has a paypal button. Got that?

http://www.revolutionmuslim.com/

Islam in Action has the videos of their calls to jihad slaughter. http://islaminaction08.blogspot.com/200 ... -jews.html And this, too. Nice work, paypal. http://islaminaction08.blogspot.com/200 ... video.html

UPDATE: McCain over at the Spectator: PayPal.com Targets Conservative Blog as 'Hate' Site http://spectator.org/blog/2010/06/12/pa ... nservative and here too. http://theothermccain.com/2010/06/12/te ... e-tip-jar/

UPDATE: Wait, it get's better. Paypal's policy is for " items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance or thefinancial exploitation of a crime."

I am not selling anything. But this this ebayer is. He is selling imam Awlaki's incitement to racist, violent jihad screeds.

Awlaki is the imam to the the worst of the jihad stars like the 911 Muslim terrorists, the Fort Hood jihadi Hasan, the Times Square car bomber, Christmas balls bomber, 7/ 7 London Bombers , 7/21 London Bombers, the leader of the transatlantic airline bombers , et al. Read about this killer in the Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... itain.html

Awlaki built up a base of extremist followers while living in London for two years until 2004, giving lectures at mosques, universities and closed study circles across the country, sources say.

He developed a following among terrorists and terrorist groomers, including the July 7 and July 21 bombers and the leader of the transatlantic airline bombers, it can also be disclosed. CDs of his sermons were found in the Iqra bookshop in Leeds — where the July 7 bombers held meetings — when it was raided in July 2005.

Mohammed Hamid, the recruiter of the failed July 21 bombers, attended his sermons, sources have told The Daily Telegraph.

His lectures were also found among the material seized from Aabid Hussain Khan, an international terrorist recruiter, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, in June 2006.

Abdulla Ahmed Ali, the leader of the trans-Atlantic airline bombers arrested in August 2006, spoke of his admiration for Awlaki during his trial. Meanwhile, Rizwan Ditta, who sold terrorist texts in Halifax, West Yorkshire, had material from Awlaki on a computer at his home when he was arrested in December 2006.

Better image here. http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/4166 ... akiuma.jpg

UPDATE: Ebay's PayPal cuts off anti-jihad sites Atlas Shrugs, SIOA, FDI Creeping Sharia http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/201 ... -sioa-fdi/

UPDATE: Many good folks have recommended Gpal (gun friendly too) Please consider making a contribution to Atlas ...............I am undertaking so many initiatives and the funds are so limited. You can send funds here:

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atla ... peech.html

Check out the discussion 'Paypal Cuts Off Atlas: Truth is the New Hate Speech'

Please check this story out....then get active. If you have a PayPal account, close it! I'd recommend providing my link to the story as your 'reason for leaving'. This is something we can ALL do!

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atla ... peech.html

Looks like time is running out. How much longer will any of us be able to buy and sell? The mark is on the horizon.

I know that there have been other times when Paypal has played politics but just can't remember right now - tried to search it out to add to this thread - they need a good lawsuit against them - it is just as hideous as the days when banks refused to lend to blacks or women.