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PayPal Cuts Ties To Four Hate Groups |
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Written by Jonathan Higbee |
Wednesday, 21 September 2011
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| Tags: pay pal, hate groups, petition, all out, cuts ties, homophobia, anti-gay, bigots, truth in action, dove world ministries, religion, business, internet |
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A campaign from AllOut that called on PayPal to end its relationship with a handful of hate groups that used its services to collect money online has been successful: the tech giant has announced it is severing ties with four anti-gay groups.
Via a press release, a representative for PayPal reveals the company has killed its links on the websites of Truth In Action (formerly and perhaps better known as Coral Ridge Ministries), Dove World Outreach (anti-Koran "Pastor" Terry Jones' hate group), Julio Severo's Brazilian hate groups and Noua Dreapta, a European neo-Nazi movement.
PayPal's release explains the decision:
The PayPal option has been disabled on the websites of Truth in Action Ministries, Brazilian extremist Julio Severo’s sites, Noua Dreapta, and Dove World Outreach Center—organizations whose regular anti-LGBT hate speech puts them starkly at odds with PayPal’s own ethics policy, which states that account holders “may not use the PayPal service for activities that [...] promote hate, violence, racial intolerance”. AllOut.org has called for ten organizations to be removed, and has attracted almost 40,000 signers from around the world to its petition asking for PayPal to take action. In response, the successful campaign has been dubbed “the latest example of homo-fascism,” by ‘Americans for Truth About Homosexuality,’ a notoriously virulent anti-LGBT group. PayPal said this week it “take[s] very seriously any cases where a user has incited hatred, violence or intolerance because of a person’s sexual orientation.”
Hopefully this is just the beginning of PayPal's pink slips. AllOut's petition lists six more groups that utilize the online service to collect money in their campaigns of hate against the LGBT community, including the notoriously evil American for Truth About Homosexuality.
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