- PayPal performed an “extensive review” of Alex Jones’
- Hateful remarks made by Jones are said to be the cause of the
- Other bigwigs in the tech industry have already banned Jones and his content
International money transfer and online payment brand PayPal just banned Alex Jones and Infowars two weeks after Jones was banned on Twitter. Hateful comments made by Jones on his Infowars sites caused the ban, according to PayPal. PayPal told PCMag through email that the company performed an “extensive review of the Infowars sites, and found instances that promoted hate or discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions”. The statement adds that Alex Jones’ website goes against PayPal’s “core value of inclusion”.
PayPal offers money transfer services in the Middle East and North Africa and also serves a number of predominantly Muslim nations through its subsidiary Xoom. Xoom offers cheap international money transfer solutions to various banks in Pakistan, one of its largest markets in the Muslim world.
Infowars was reportedly given 10 days to look for another payment provider. The right-wing website believes that its criticism of Islam and its very clear “opposition to transgenderism being taught to children” in American schools may have prompted the ban. The brand’s user agreement prohibits acts that are “threatening or harassing”.
PayPal’s termination of its services to Infowars will affect the website financially since the online payments brand is one of the most trusted money transfer services in the United States.
Apart from the email sent to PCMag, PayPal has not released any further comments about the ban. Twitter banned Alex Jones and his website two weeks prior, according to reports. In August of 2018, internet bigwigs YouTube and Facebook removed Jones and Infowars from their platforms due to hate speech. The website was also banned by Apple in the same month.
Jones has said that tech companies want to stop right wing voices from airing their opinions, the same allegation that President Trump threw at Silicon Valley.
"They better be careful, because you can't do that to people", Trump said in August. "We have literally thousands and thousands of complaints coming in." Facebook, Twitter and Google deny that they are discriminating against right wing viewpoints. The attorney general hit back by saying that the situation is a “growing concern”. A meeting about this is likely going to be held in November, according to a Reuters report.
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