Post by One on Dec 14, 2022 9:21:44 GMT -5
I don't use PayPal, I'm not sure I even really understand it's purpose other than a purportedly secure online transaction system. We've all been reading about how our government is "encouraging" big tech companies to censor unacceptable speech, i.e. information that may prove damaging to their quest to tyranny.
I've become a fan of Substack which apparently still endorses free speech. One specific newsletter I enjoy is The Free Press, formerly Common Sense. Founded by liberal writer Bari Weiss from the WSJ and NYT, TFP is largely comprised of liberal writers who defected from the mainstream, often because they rejected editorial manipulation of information for partisan or woke purposes.
This is from a recent article called What the Hell Happened to PayPal? Let me know if you can't access it and I'll copy/paste.
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I've become a fan of Substack which apparently still endorses free speech. One specific newsletter I enjoy is The Free Press, formerly Common Sense. Founded by liberal writer Bari Weiss from the WSJ and NYT, TFP is largely comprised of liberal writers who defected from the mainstream, often because they rejected editorial manipulation of information for partisan or woke purposes.
This is from a recent article called What the Hell Happened to PayPal? Let me know if you can't access it and I'll copy/paste.
“The authoritarian, social-credit system developed in China was now being implemented in the West, except instead of ideological compliance being enforced by the Chinese Communist Party, it was being policed by a woke capitalist corporation."
"... consider Colin Wright.
The evolutionary biologist received his Ph.D. from U.C. Santa Barbara in 2018 and writes critically about gender ideology.
In June, he was kicked off PayPal—and, soon after, Etsy, where he sold t-shirts and mugs promoting his newsletter. PayPal told Wright that, if he wanted to know why he’d been ejected, 'an attorney or law enforcement officer must submit a legal subpoena.' "
"... consider Colin Wright.
The evolutionary biologist received his Ph.D. from U.C. Santa Barbara in 2018 and writes critically about gender ideology.
In June, he was kicked off PayPal—and, soon after, Etsy, where he sold t-shirts and mugs promoting his newsletter. PayPal told Wright that, if he wanted to know why he’d been ejected, 'an attorney or law enforcement officer must submit a legal subpoena.' "
"It was not a conspiracy. Democratic officials were not colluding with the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and owners of legacy newspapers and cable networks and studio chiefs and university presidents. It’s that, in a matter of a few months, maybe a year, they had all embraced the same leftwing identitarianism, the same slogans, the same hashtags and pronouns, the same statistics, the same talking points, and they reinforced each other, and they made it exceedingly difficult for anyone to challenge the new orthodoxy."