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PayPal Terminates Hong Kong Account of Pro-Democracy Group
VOA News ^ | Oct 14, 2022 | Tommy Walker

Posted on 10/14/2022 3:18:38 PM PDT by proust

One of Hong Kong’s last remaining pro-democracy activist groups has had its account with online payments processor PayPal terminated.

The League of Social Democrats says that PayPal, a multinational financial technology company headquartered in California and Nebraska, sent an email stating it can no longer provide its services to the activist group.

The text of PayPal's email sent to the League of Social Democrats in September has been seen by VOA. It outlines the termination and says the decision is “final.”

(Excerpt) Read more at voanews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asia; china; democracy; hongkong; paypal
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1 posted on 10/14/2022 3:18:38 PM PDT by proust
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To: proust
Here is me not giving a fudge about Hong Kong. Means as much to me as Nairobi.

Nevertheless, what the Chicoms want they get with these tech companies.

2 posted on 10/14/2022 3:21:11 PM PDT by Clemenza
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To: proust

It would be interesting, perhaps quite revealing, to find out who is on the Board of Directors for PayPal, and how long they have held the position.
PayPal seems to have gone through a sea change in the last year or two, now listing hard to the left.


3 posted on 10/14/2022 3:22:33 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

I give my $10 monthly to Free Republic thru PayPal...

Wondering if they’ll try to fine me $2500 for the “sin” of being a FReeper?


4 posted on 10/14/2022 3:24:47 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: proust

Is Paypal just a nerdy payment processor? Or is it now an instrument of those who want to control the minds and words of all?

Who compensates it for the revenue lost by eliminating accounts that do not conform?

Corporations are in business to make money not to usher in 1984.


5 posted on 10/14/2022 3:26:42 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Kick every last democrat out of office! )
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To: Alas Babylon!

Can we donate through gift card?


6 posted on 10/14/2022 3:28:33 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: lee martell

If it’s not the Chinese then it’s the indoctrinated leftists our universities are spewing out their sphincter holes every year. My brother lives in NYC and got involved with one tech company and quit after a week, he couldn’t stand it. He called it “wokeinsanity”... Booklets and “training” on every kind of woke crap you can imagine, pronouns, CRT, trannys, gays, with he said the most pretentious kind of a-holes you can imagine in charge. Actually I think he moved out of NYC entirely last week LOL, I have to ask him.


7 posted on 10/14/2022 3:29:19 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

I just use a credit card. I have never seen the allure to use PayPal unless you are a vendor.


8 posted on 10/14/2022 3:34:35 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Alas Babylon!

Its time for you to give up pay pal.


9 posted on 10/14/2022 3:39:30 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Clemenza

I don’t give a fudge about PayPal. I cancelled my account last week before they had a chance to bend me over for my pro American views.


10 posted on 10/14/2022 3:42:35 PM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

A disturbing email from a friend prompted my recollection of Lenin’s century old prediction:
“First we will take Eastern Europe, then the masses of Asia. We will encircle the last bastion of capitalism, the United States of America. We will not need to fight. It will fall as a ripe fruit into our hands.”
Now that we have inattentively and STUPIDLY allowed Marxism to infiltrate American colleges & universities and train several generations, millions of these former students now saturate government and private sector organizations where they promulgate the insane “Woke” madness now dragging us closer to Lenin’s fraudulent totalitarian union with the other human nature denying Marxist nation states.
With each new instance of this insanity, I’m reminded of that iconic last few minutes at the end of the original “Planet of The Apes” when Charlton Heston comes upon the wreckage of the Statue of Liberty, falls to his knees, pounds the earth and utters that iconic imprecation “You did it. You maniacs, you blew it up! Damn you...G DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!”
If OUR MANIACS are not stopped, and soon, those of you who failed to grasp what’s coming will be on your knees as slaves to your new global elite MASTERS!


11 posted on 10/14/2022 3:43:10 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: proust

Paypal (PYPL) stock is down $14 per share since close of trading last Friday. It was 94.42 on 10/6 and closed today at $80.47 (and even further down in after market trading).

The company seems unconcerned and a Market Watch article stated “controversy is unlikely to have ‘any noticeable impact’ on PayPal’s reported users, analyst says”.

We shall see. Companies have a tendency to believe the liberal press so assume that most of their shareholders will support their actions. They should take a look at what has happened to Disney’s stock price in the past three months. There is some truth to the phrase, “Get Woke, Go Broke”.


12 posted on 10/14/2022 3:45:28 PM PDT by CFW
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

I wish FR used ACH as a payment transaction. They would have much more in donations by not surrendering CC fees, or PayPal fees.

Nevertheless, I refuse to use PayPal to donate to FR. To me, that’s like handing resources to FR and then handing a donation to PayPal, an entity that has publicly stated their goal is to destroy me.


13 posted on 10/14/2022 3:46:08 PM PDT by Obadiah (Calamity Joe Biden)
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To: proust
"PayPal Terminates Hong Kong Account of Pro-Democracy Group..."

...... This is what ESG Compliance looks like ....

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14 posted on 10/14/2022 3:53:24 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: hardspunned

PayPal is EVIL!!!!


15 posted on 10/14/2022 3:56:24 PM PDT by Clemenza
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To: proust

Bump


16 posted on 10/14/2022 4:04:15 PM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: proust

Occasionally I need to send money to my kids. I’ve been using PayPal. What should I switch to?


17 posted on 10/14/2022 4:05:18 PM PDT by Mercat
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To: Mercat

Another such service is Zelle. I have used that with ease. I have no idea whether it is better politically than PayPal.


18 posted on 10/14/2022 4:15:58 PM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Mercat

Most banks will let you xfer money from your account to another. Just need their routing number and account number. All online.


19 posted on 10/14/2022 4:20:38 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Can we donate through gift card?
For me, FR charges a credit card I assigned each month.
20 posted on 10/14/2022 4:31:16 PM PDT by citizen (The pResident On Hot Mic With Florida Official: ‘No One F**ks With A Biden’)
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