PayPal Screws the Pooch Again
Mar. 25th, 2008 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lordshipmayhemRemember the great Something Awful/Hurricane Katrina debacle, where PayPal accused the SA site of perpetrating a fraud by accepting donations on their site through a PayPal account, and then not shipping the goods to the people? (WTF. Seriously, PayPal, WTF.) And then they claimed they couldn't forward the money to the Red Cross as requested (apparently nobody at PayPal has authority to sign any cheque that isn't a paycheque.)
Well, they've managed to do it again. The Federation of Canadian Naturists, which is all about social nudity and not sexual nudity, has a quarterly magazine called Going Natural. They've been a client of PayPal for four complaint-free years. Suddenly their account's been suspended because someone has decided not only is the magazine "pornographic", but sells "sexually oriented goods or services involving minors" or "services for which the purpose is to facilitate meetings for sexually oriented activities." Apparently the prude who made this decision has never actually read the magazine in question. If they had, they might have noticed that it gets a grant from the Federal Government's Canada Magazine Fund.
And in return for this little insult, the FCN is looking to sue the ass off of PayPal. That ought to make for one interesting law case.
Well, they've managed to do it again. The Federation of Canadian Naturists, which is all about social nudity and not sexual nudity, has a quarterly magazine called Going Natural. They've been a client of PayPal for four complaint-free years. Suddenly their account's been suspended because someone has decided not only is the magazine "pornographic", but sells "sexually oriented goods or services involving minors" or "services for which the purpose is to facilitate meetings for sexually oriented activities." Apparently the prude who made this decision has never actually read the magazine in question. If they had, they might have noticed that it gets a grant from the Federal Government's Canada Magazine Fund.
And in return for this little insult, the FCN is looking to sue the ass off of PayPal. That ought to make for one interesting law case.
