-WiscoDave
and this:
The course reversal comes after backlash to the presumed policy erupted on Twitter. Tech leader David Marcus suggested that it was reprehensible for the company to refuse service to customers because it finds their political views objectionable.
-Greg
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I got that tweet from Wisco Saturday afternoon and damned near died laughing. Seriously, I had tears rolling down my face.
That's some weak backtracking there, paypal. I could do better than that when I was nine.
I'm sorry, but there is no way in hell I believe that 'this language was never intended to be inserted in our policy' bullshit. Somebody was directed to write it, somebody did write it, somebody reviewed it, somebody passed it up to the legal department, somebody approved it, and somebody posted it.
That's a lot of blame to go around and you can't convince me that some blue haired clerk with a nose ring, full sleeve tattoos and rainbow bumper sticker on the back of her Tesla thought it up and did it all by herself.
Okay, now that they've backpedaled, am I going back to them?
Naw, I'm taking a hard pass on it for several reasons. They're anti-gun leftists, they think I'm fucking stupid with the above retraction, they've made it as difficult as they could to close my account, and they didn't say a damned thing about not fining people, without allowing them to mount any kind of defense by the way, for expressing a conservative opinion if they consider it to be hate speech - not misinformation, but hate speech.
Look, the only reason I had it on this site was because it made it easier for you if you wanted to kick me some ammo money. You could do it with your own paypal account or use a debit card without even having to get up out of your easy chair to snail mail it to me. But donations have crashed this past couple years because money's fucking tight, and I totally get that. I'm not hurting as bad as some are, so how could I, in good conscience, take food from your mouth or gas from your tank? I ain't that way, man.
I opened that account back in 2004 so I could buy and sell shit on ebay, but I think I've bought one item off that site in the past ten years, so it's not hurting me there either.
My point being I don't really need paypal, so why would I even want to go back?
Okay, one final thing: At the close of the market on Friday, PayPal stock went from $94.42 to $90.17, a drop of $4.25, and showed a steady decline all day. I can't wait to see where it goes today.
And before you ask, no, I don't watch the stock market. Are you fucking kidding? I can't even do grade school math.
