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Users Reject PayPal’s Attempt to Limit Speech. They Should.

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Users Reject PayPal’s Attempt to Limit Speech. They Should.
A PayPal sign at the LeWeb expo in Paris on Dec. 5, 2012. Eric Piermont/AFP/Getty Images
J.G. Collins
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An update to the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) of PayPal, the multinational payments platform, was interpreted to say the company will withhold up to $2,500 of account holders’ funds as “liquidated damages” if  users “provide false, inaccurate, or misleading information.”  The new policy was first highlighted by the Daily Wire on Oct. 7.
J.G. Collins
J.G. Collins
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J.G. Collins is managing director of the Stuyvesant Square Consultancy, a strategic advisory, market survey, and consulting firm in New York. His writings on economics, trade, politics, and public policy have appeared in Forbes, the New York Post, Crain’s New York Business, The Hill, The American Conservative, and other publications.
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