Voat PayPal account has been permanently limited (announcements)

submitted ago by Atko

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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lawofchaos ago

I wonder how long it will take before an SRS mod boats about reporting Voat to PayPal as a porn service or something.

damnbiker ago

How does one report something like that to Paypal? I mean, Reddit is already pretty much dead. Why don't we just report all the NSFW subreddits to Paypal and watch their user based funding slow down even more?

Think about it: There's a lot of user generated NSFW content and no verification of the age of the submitter or the viewer. r/gonewild r/NSFW are two that I can think of, off the top of my head. Anyone else have a list?

lawofchaos ago

Haha that is a cool way to fight back. But if the higher ups from Reddit and the higher ups from Paypal are golfing buddies (which could also be the case) then you would never get anywhere.

From what I've heard about Paypal, the best solution is actually just to find an alternative to it.

damnbiker ago

True, but why can't we do both?

lawofchaos ago

I don't see why not, it's definitely worth a shot. Fighting fire with fire seems to be the only way to deal with these fuckers, whether people like it or not.

Whatever happened to Anonymous? Weren't they originally from 4chan? We need a serious group of hackers on our side and one with a cult following like Anonymous would be perfect.

damnbiker ago

I don't know that hacking is necessary. Limiting Reddit's access to funds will do far more damage than hacking it.