Saturday, December 04, 2010

... and now PayPal as well!

This is their statement:
PayPal statement regarding WikiLeaks
December 3, 2010 PayPal has permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity. WeĆ¢€™ve notified the account holder of this action
link

I've been increasingly using PayPal over the past years for my internet transactions.
I can use IDeal, but I don't like it much. Or pay directly via credit card... and I probably will.

I use PayPal to pay small vendors who have no other alternative. I am going to let them know to change their options or lose me as a customer. I also use PayPal to do simple money transfers to people. I will simply have to find another way.

It will take a bit more work than Amazon to untangle myself but do it, I shall.
(It was an enlightening moment, to realise how many of my eggs are in one basket)

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