The reason given was "Under the Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for certain sexually oriented materials or services or for items that could be considered obscene". This is wrong/false on so many levels. We used PayPal only as a means to receive voluntary donations from people who wanted to support further development of Voat and to help pay for our hosting fees. This is beyond crazy.
According to PayPal User Agreement, our funds can be kept by PayPal for 180 days. I requested further clarification from PayPal, but I would like to advise everyone who planned to donate to Voat - to NOT do so via PayPal.
Honestly, I don't know what I expected when I trusted PayPal with our donation money. I apologize to everyone who donated to us through PayPal and I will badge everyone who did so even if the funds are never released by PayPal.
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k_digi ago
Was only a matter of time really - :
see here where i said all that would happen.
https://voat.co/v/Contact/comments/149765
As soon as "ProtonMail" got large on it's crowd fund the NSA sent though the order and Pay pay pal pal, canned them.
my advice is to open a Crypto account with BTC38 in Yuan and do it all that way:
http://www.btc38.com/trade_en.html
if you get Crypto you can convert to Yaun and then to whatever "Debt Buck$" you use in your country, you will pay a few fees but not many.
This will open your donations to all these Crypto sure some are just junk but some are serious Crypto, and the Chinese take them seriously.
SilverBanana ago
Wou should have /v/calledit. For accurate predictions you have made.
fluffingtonthefifth ago
Subbed. Thank you for the smile. I hope this one blows up. Neat topic!