Last week PayPal, an online service for making and receiving payments, announced that at PayPal’s “sole discretion� $2,500 would be seized from accounts of those PayPal decided were guilty of spreading misinformation. “Misinformation� is whatever some speech control office at PayPal doesn’t like or dissent from official narratives. In other words, PayPal announced a policy... Read More

Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Big Tech has censored not just pro-Russia outlets, but leftist media that blame the conflict on American imperialism through NATO expansion. This week, that censorship expanded to include financial deplatforming. As Matt Taibbi, Jacobin, and others have explained, PayPal stopped working with Consortium News and MintPress News.... Read More

Paypal is a prominent example of monopoly capital. Like most Silicon Valley tech firms, they like to keep their terms of service as opaque as possible. Even more shrouded in secrecy is how decisions to discriminate against customers is made, and who makes them. Leaks provided to National Justice from a private Paypal seminar conducted... Read More

So now you guys see where my money will be going, as those of you who are parents are all too familiar. :) So if you enjoy my blog, and the commentary and analysis that can be found here, I ask you to please contribute. Every little bit helps. I greatly appreciate anything you have... Read More