This is the first time I'm writing to this organization which I've used for a decade. The original intent of the internet was the free flow of information. This was back when Napster was the future until **bleep** like Lars Ulrich decided it was a great idea to completely centralize information between two or three companies. I don't know what has happened but that the internet is on a collision course with pure authoritarianism that is antithetical to everything Americans are supposed to believe.
I used to be a leftist or considered myself a liberal. Back then, I thought what we stood for was free expression, accountable government and domestic spending prioritized over foreign spending (aka war). I've since left this label behind, because number one labels are lame (as we used to believe in the 90s) and number two, **bleep** like what Paypal is doing to GAB.com in the name of "social justice." The only people being truly harmed by your deplatforming of GAB are independent creators, artists and musicians. As I was just about to release my new album exclusively on GAB, **bleep** hit the fan as you took away their ability to make money. But here is the truth- Paypal allows rappers to remain completely funded while promoting the degradation of women, yet you do nothing. In fact, as a youngster, the first time I ever heard the phrases "**bleep**" or "**bleep**" or that I should treat a woman like a **bleep** instead of as an equal came from musicians that Paypal allows to remain fully funded on this financial platform at this very moment. Young women are being tricked into fiming themselves being sexually exploited by men suing Paypal all the time. Yet Paypal is silent. This is the tip of the iceberg of hypocrisy to which I could link Paypal. The fact is, U.S. dollar bills are used to commit every type of atrocity on this planet. Weapons of mass destruction are purchased with U.S. dollars and then used to kill and mame. Does Paypal attack the U.S. dollar? No. Rather, it accepts and promotes the U.S. dollar as it's primary source of revenue!! So by Paypal's own "guilt by association" logic it has applied to GAB- that the Gab network is responsible because one if it's users commits a heinous atrocity, can I, as a classically liberal humanitarian not make the same leap that Paypal is supporting a million deaths in the middle East through it's part in the US dollar network? It may sound silly to you but that's how your ridiculous canceling of GAB sounds to me. There are people on GAB like myself who have in fact been arguing with these same "**bleep**" types and soundly defeating them in debates, using logic, reason and common sense. And now you are shutting down our efforts. I left the left because of the overwhelming Hypocrisy and Paypal has taken it to the next level. I did not vote for Hillary because she voted for the Iraq war which I was against. I stopped supporting Obama because instead of reducing global conflict he expanded it into Libya and Syria, drawing us into a global crisis with Russia. It was not because I was afraid of genitalia. If Paypal wants to do something positive for the world, start shutting down the people who starts WARS. Start going after companies that put Toxins in our food supply. Shut down those that would poison oru great lakes and waterways. Get your damn priorities straight one day. Stop going after the weak on behalf of the powerful and START GOING AFTER THE POWERFUL ON BEHALF OF THE WEAK. Only then can you ever fix what I once thought was the foundation of supposed "liberalism." Until then, it just looks like authoritarianism masquerading as good manners to me and I will be searching for alternatives to your company. Thanks.
