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 and the book), 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: [email protected]. (hat tip Daryl)

Subject:	Notification of Limited Account Access RXI072
Date:	6/12/2010 10:56:46 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
From:	[email protected]
Reply To: [email protected] To: [email protected]

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/marketingweb?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=ua/AcceptableUse_full&locale.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 [email protected].

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.

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. And this, too. Nice work, paypal.

UPDATE: McCain over at the Spectator: PayPal.com Targets Conservative Blog as 'Hate' Site and here too.

UPDATE: Wait, it gets better. Paypal's policy bans users from selling "items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance or the financial exploitation of a crime."

I am not selling anything. But this ebayer is. He is selling dvd's of imam Anwar al-Awlaki's incitement — his racist, violent jihad screeds.

Better image here.

UPDATE: Ebay's PayPal cuts off anti-jihad sites Atlas Shrugs, SIOA, FDI Creeping Sharia

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: UPDATE October 14: Do not donate to GPAL. They keep the money! they have not transferred one penny to Atlas, SIOA or Jihadwatch.

UPDATE: Great piece on this over at Stop the ACLU

UPDATE: Crash Paypal.

UPDATE: Overwhelmed by the support and all those writing to paypal. They won't win. They think they have. What they don't know is, we have not yet begun to fight.

UPDATE: A number of trolls have written to admonish me for taking an un-Randian approach to the paypal affair. I beg to differ.

Businesses are free to conduct business with whom and however they choose and let the market decide. Absolutely.

I do not believe for a moment that the government should step in and regulate or force a business into doing bad business (i.e., sub prime mortgages) and/or changing its policy. But I also believe that it is in my power to call attention to bad business practice and make it known and let the market decide. If paypal is going to punish courageous voices and free men while sanctioning evil, people should know that before they give their business over to such quisling companies.

UPDATE: They are duking it out in the Paypal community forums. (hat tip Sean)

UPDATE: Jews for Sarah (hey, count me in) opines here.

UPDATE: The lid's take is here.

UPDATE: Powerline quoteth Atlas: "Truth is the New Hate Speech"

UPDATE: A rare moment of lucidity from the green padded cell at Bellevue: "The heroine of the right wing blogosphere. 'We’re all Pamela Geller now!'”

UPDATE: Excellent piece over at Jumping in pools.

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