I’ve been a victim of cancel culture… but I’m fighting back!
This week PayPal tried to pull the rug out from underneath a fledgling conservative media venture.
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As some of you already know, I’ve been the victim of Big Tech censorship and cancel culture combined this week.
On Sunday, I began the launch of a campaign to attract seed funding for my new pro-freedom conservative news aggregator website.
I had already sunk considerable funds into the www.EurekaFreePress.com venture but require at least $20,000 to contract journalists for the website. The project is not intended to make a profit and will be a free news service for all. In fact, Nation First subscribers will receive a weekly news wrap-up from the website when its operational.
So I asked for donations via PayPal. Big mistake.
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The Eureka Free Press fundraising campaign was going well, with almost $2,500 in donations as of Wednesday.
But then PayPal pulled the plug on me. This is what I found in my email account later that night:
My PayPal account of about 20 years has now been “permanently limited” because I am allegedly “in violation of PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy”.
Except I’m not.
Running through the list of offences that are found in PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy, I cannot find where it says setting up a pro-freedom, conservative news website is a crime.
Offences include using PayPal for illegal activity, the promotion of illegal activity, the promotion of hate, violence or obscenity, sex services, unlawful pornography, firearms and weapons, unlawful doxxing, Ponzi schemes, money exchanges, credit services and the like.
I have not fallen afoul of a single clause of that part of their policy.
But PayPal also requires businesses who offer specific services to be pre-approved before using the payment system.
Such business include airlines, charities, high value product sellers, payment facilitators, financial investors, gambling services, cryptocurrency providers, pharmacies, telemedicine, pornography providers, dating services, live broadcasters, file sharing services, alcohol and tobacco sellers, medical item sellers, medical service providers, multilevel marketers, direct sellers and online marketplaces.
Once again, I don’t fall afoul of that part of their policy as I am not in any of those offending categories of sellers.
In fact, right now, I’m selling nothing.
People were donating to a business yet to be established.
That business was an online news service but with a pro-freedom and conservative bent.
As is stands right now, the www.EurekaFreePress.com website has no content, save a logo and spaces for advertising which, in the long term, I hope will keep the venture afloat.
How can the website I’m fundraising for be against even spurious PayPal offences like “the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory” if it hasn’t actually got anything up on it?
Has PayPal set up a special unit that predicts potential future crimes like the book and movie Minority Report?
I suspect that I would have a good case to take on PayPal legally but, right now, my focus is on two things.
The first is ensuring Nation First gets bigger and better so I can continue to provide you with the kind of analysis of national and global affairs that you’re not going to get from the fake news legacy media.
Readers who have become paid subscribers to Nation First have helped in that regard. Those readers who haven’t as yet still have the opportunity.
My second focus is on the establishment of the Eureka Free Press news website that PayPal has tried to kill off before it was even born.
Yesterday, I spent a long time scouring the internet for alternatives to PayPal that do not engage in cancel culture.
They are few and far between.
Pro-freedom payment providers AlignPay, GrabPay and Parallel Economy all sound great but they are confined to businesses and customers in the United States at the moment.
GETTR Pay is also on its way.
When these services are available outside of the United States then I will certainly be signing up.
For now, I’ve decided to ensure I have multiple options in case cancel culture strikes again.
Those who are wanting to support Eureka Free Press and my other media ventures (apart from Nation First) can now go direct to my website to process credit card payments.
All subscriptions and sponsorships for Nation First must be made through Substack as per the rules of this platform.
My paid subscribers are going to have to forgive me here because they’ve read this bit before… but there’s lessons in this little drama.
In reality, I knew this cancellation was coming after I read a report by journalist Matt Taibbi on his Substack publication TK News months ago which talked about PayPal suspending the accounts of a series of independent journalists and media outlets.
Still, it isn’t right and the practice should actually be outlawed.
One commentator summed it up better than I could:
No one should ever dictate what you can buy or sell as long as it is within the guidelines of the law. The fact that some of these big-tech companies think it is acceptable to selectively allow transactions to occur based on their own world-views is reprehensible, despicable, and a slippery slope that leads to less freedom for all of us.
PayPal is essentially an online bank.
Imagine if your banks told you it was closing down or freezing your account because it didn’t like your political views?
Could that happen? It already did happen in Canada!
This is why we have to defend paper cash and coinage at all costs. Without it, we are under the thumb of bankers and governments.
Having said all of that, I’m happy that I’m no longer associated with PayPal.
Their CEO has connections to the World Economic Forum and the Council on Foreign Relations.
PayPal’s largest shareholders are Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street.
And Australian authorities have been so concerned that paedophiles have used PayPal to facilitate their evil doings that they’ve been audited by the nation’s finance watchdog.
Good riddance to bad rubbish I say.
God bless you, your family and our nation.
Take care,
George Christensen
Rowan Dean from Sky News Australia gave an excellent report on farmer protests in Holland and Sri Lanka:
Why are Dutch farmers angry? Principia Scientific reports their government told them they needed to cull 30% of their livestock.
The Western Journal reports on a spate of deaths of livestock in the USA and warns the food crisis is about to get worse.
The European Union’s climate policies are leading to the reduction of food supply, according to The Spectator Australia.
Natural News reports the crisis is already leading to violent attacks in grocery stores in the United States.
Food riots breaking out across the rest of the world, according to Poplar Preparedness:
In news entirely unrelated (I’m sure), The Last Refuge reports that Bill Gates has bought up more farmland.
The death of medical privacy in Victoria is mourned in The Spectator Australia.
Also in The Spectator Australia, Alexandra Marshall joins the dots between falling birth rates and the COVID jabs.
Reclaim The Net reports that Twitter censored a story on a ‘vaccine’ death.
They also report the Canadian government is telling kids to be wary of free speech and that the EU is handing 3 million private chats over to the police.
The EU has also mandated spyware be installed in all vehicles, according to Technocracy News.
Jim Rickards of The Daily Reckoning has warned plans to eliminate cash are accelerating.
The World Economic Forum have asked “what to do with all these useless people” and Silent Crow News reports on the disturbing answer.
George Christensen is a former Australian politician, a Christian, freedom lover, conservative, blogger, podcaster, journalist and theologian. He has been feted by the Epoch Times as a “champion of human rights” and his writings have been praised by Infowars’ Alex Jones as “excellent and informative”.
George believes Nation First will be an essential part of the ongoing fight for freedom:
“The time is now for every proud patriot to step to the fore and fight for our freedom, sovereignty and way of life. Information is a key tool in any battle and the Nation First newsletter will be a valuable tool in the battle for the future of the West.”
— George Christensen.
Find more about George at his www.georgechristensen.com.au website.
i was going to suggest to you if Blackrock and Vanguard have a percentage of Paypal shares then they control the boardroom with their warped World Economic Forum to do list to dominate the Financial markets of the world.
Hi George. Paypal are a law jnto themselves. Anyone who has had a Paypal account would have been limited, terminated, cancelled etc one time or another, especially if you are collecting funds regularly selling products/services or the like.
My experience was to be limited and also have all funds in my Paypal account held in supension for 180 days (6 months). Their reason; operating outside of their policy and selling illegal substances online through eBay. Can you guess what I would have been selling? The answer; Herbal teas; such as peppermint, ginger, lemon balm. The herb that they chose as their reason to hold my funds was...wait for it...Chamomile tea.
Like you, I read through their policies and found nothing that I had done wrong. I emailed Paypal, and also spoke with someone on the phone. It was like talking to a brick wall. They were never going to accept any explanation, no matter if it made sense and was logical. There was absolutely nothing I could do but wait for the 6 months to pass before I could obtain my funds.
In the meantime, I was creating my e-commerce website and required a payment gateway to accept credit card payments. Every bank that I spoke to declined me with their standard response "we don't provide payment gateways for that kind of thing". This was my first experience dealing with the bank's "ethical investment, ethical business" nonsense that we see today. If they don't like what you are selling, offering, talking about, borrowing money for, etc then it's a big fat NO, and there is no reasoning with them.
This is the new world that we live in unfortunately. If you ain't a greenie, woke, leftie, all inclusive nutcase, they make life as difficult as possible.