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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Spank_My_Bottom ago
And here we see excellent example of fanatism and fearmongering: You will make calls and try to get something deleted. You do that based on information somebody other said (and somebody other is just a user on the internet, no standard there). You have to join the brigade because you believe that lie and you are fear the consequences of checking the facts.
People on the other side of the barricade have to agree or at least hold their tongue, unless they are labeled horrible degenerates. Because once they do disagree, people will not check the facts before judging them. They are prohibited from checking the facts, just as in the previous example.
So we have run-away witch hunt where nobody knows anything, but have to hate somebody based on the absence of facts.