Seems like Paypal is getting a hard lesson in what a 'brand' really means... Having no balls, and playing dangerous politics, is not a good way to hold the trust and support of customers. Paypal is an internet brand, built on the goodwill of web users. But so is Wikileaks. And the difference is that Wikileaks exemplifies the values that many 'netizens' hold, whilst Paypal has shown itself to be the Haliburton of the web world - to have only one corporate 'value': creating shareholder returns regardless of what this involves. My sense is that this could yet prove to be a miscalculation for Paypal as costly as Jeff Jarvis "Dell **bleep**" (and only a wreched neoconservative tea-party Bible-Belt spell-checker could bleep a world like H*ll out!) was for the computer manufacturer...
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