Montana Sen. Steve Daines said the walked-back PayPal policy that threatened to fine users $2,500 for spreading misinformation is 'Orwellian.'
its Acceptable Use Policy effective Nov. 3, which expanded "prohibited activities," including the "ending, posting, or publication of messages, content, or materials that meet certain criteria."
One of the violations, according to the previous agreement, states that users "may not" use PayPal to promote misinformation.After the Acceptable Use Policy received pushback on Twitter from people such as former PayPal President David Marcus and Tesla CEO and PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, PayPal told FOX Business on Oct. 8 the policy was sent out "in error" and said the "misinformation" portion would be removed.
"PayPal declaring themselves the arbiter of truth and threatening to fine users if they step out of line with the woke whims of the day is truly Orwellian," Daines said. "The more that these big tech companies and financial institutions creep in on the personal beliefs of their users, the more Americans will lose trust."
Daines, along with several other Republican senators, including Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Penn., and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., sent a letter to PayPal CEO Dan Schulman on Oct. 14 expressing "deep concern" about the now-removed policy and asked how "PayPal allowed a policy such as this to move forward in the first place."
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