“PayPal claimed that its policy on misinformation was itself misinformation!”
So, will they be fining themselves, then? Probably not, I’d bet. This article makes a darn good point – although I’m glad they had to back off this idiotic idea, but it never should have come up in the first place.
“It’s very likely that the user protest itself—and a big selloff in PayPal stock—made the crucial difference. Many people cheered, but actually this is extremely unsettling. We can’t live in a world where our essential rights, privacy, and liberties always hang in the balance and depend on Twitter-based protests in order to have them recognized.”
In order to avoid being placed on “Double Secret Probation” by large companies, government, we’re going to be in a never-ending game of “Whack-a-Mole,” continually stamping out fires till we just get tired of doing so. Scary thought.
