It looks like PayPal has stopped doing business with domain name registrar Epik. A member at Namepros noticed they could not use PayPal and thought it was a glitch.
Rob Davis replied writing a series of letters that are very well written addressing Paypal executives.
You can follow this link and read all the correspondence Epik has sent out to the company.
This decision by PayPal just seems wrong in my opinion without any proof of wrong doing or allowing for an appeal. In the letters it was noted that PayPal determined that they would no longer provide services to Epik due to service risk. A business decision has been made to no longer process transactions on your behalf.
First they came for Rob Monster…but I wasnt a Monsyer,…so I didn’t care.
good one, not sure how many people follow…
+1 Gary.
No more Paypal? That’s a P R O B L E M !
It would probably help Epik’s cause if they posted PayPal’s correspondence to them. Otherwise, it’s a one-sided conversation.
There is no correspondence from PayPal Shaun, and they have refused to offer any formal guidance, other than two comments provided “off the record” – one being that the SPLC was directly guiding the CEO in termination of services for various organizations for positioning and political reasons. PayPal’s CEO has confirmed this in public, and we have materials coming out shortly detailing SPLC’s targeting methods, and how it is leveraged in an attempt to destroy individuals and organizations outside of their plans.
PayPal did originally suspend services in May, prompting an exchange and phone call with PayPal’s CEO executive team three days later. This was centered over the possible controversy of one of their executives being moved from PayPal to a board member position at GoDaddy, which resulted in a number of negative actions that were seen as directly correlated and designed to harm Epik. The CEO’s team made corrective actions and restored services almost immediately, and we never released the correspondence knowing it could be devastating to both of them. We never expected they would actually terminate our services permanently, in part due to the transparency of the malfeasance that was involved.
This is the last direct interaction we have had with PayPal, as they have since deleted all of the successfully completed questionnaires prior provided. Our understanding from their service team prior to June, was that they had possibly not factored our status as a domain registrar as the reason we would have so many small inbound international payments. They were unable to provide any further guidance though on the motivation of their executives – because it frankly made no sense to them.
The other comment received directly from a PayPal staffer earlier in the year was so horrific in its context, that I had hoped we would never have to share it. The summary was that PayPal was going to create difficulties for Epik, because they did not like Rob Monster privately helping hardship cases out with small personal loans to get them through periods of difficulty. The inference being that there may be higher level narratives to inflict harm on specific human beings. My prediction is that on future look back, we will all discover that the AWS “Buckets” used by GoDaddy and others are not just being used for data storage, but to literally decide who is welcome in the future Utopia they have deluded themselves to believing they are building together. They were built for weaponized targeting, not just data correlation.
We see so many lines being crossed and moved daily now, that most Americans are unfortunately becoming numb to the recognition of when they should be speaking out. Even doing so can result in coordinated attacks to dismantle entire livelihoods with precision execution. We have passed the point of entire sections of leadership refusing to even condemn police stations being burned to the ground – while officers are literally being assassinated in the streets – so I’m not sure I even recognize the country (or world) I live in anymore.
Prayers for the individuals in Nigeria and other locations that are literally seeing their friends and loved ones being killed in their local streets and neighborhoods. There are many living in fear, and more leaders needing to step up before this gets any further out of hand. We should be kissing the ground here daily in thankfulness and appreciation for the incredible gifts we have that most unfortunately take for granted. If we lose respect and perspective for what we have to be truly thankful for, then we will never even know when it is time to actually put up a fight. We are being lulled by misdirection.
Yep noticed it last night. total bummer.
This is currency terrorism. The terrorists control the money supply, and soon ICANN will be repossessing domain names for wrongthink. If you don’t believe that, you probably also believed that ridiculous “two weeks to slow the spread” of a nonexistent virus thing. If you think I am not serious, I am liquidating my Web 1 portfolio and heading to greener (read decentralized) pastures. The Nazis won and they’re back. Wake up. Quarantine camps are concentration camps.
Paypal since ebay days has been a monopoly, good riddance, it is about 18 months away from probably being shaken out by new players, and the crypto space. Way to fee heavy, and controlling, lucky for epik we are heading into 2021, and digital currency is now real, even paypal is playing catch up there.
I figured this is what was going on after I discovered the PayPal issue at Epik. Absolutely appalling, sickening. I hope this will not be allowed to stand, and that Epik will be compensated for this travesty. It also affects clients and customers.
By the way, on a side note for anyone who is not aware, the censorship and suppression is not just against conservative voices, which is mostly what you hear about if you hear anything at all. It is also very much and hugely against others who simply deviate from the “establishment.” That includes against the real left and real progressives, which should most definitely *not* be confused with the pretend neoliberal Democratic establishment “fake left” and fake (anything but, and not) progressives. In the mainstream media, what you normally see referred to constantly and daily as the (“radical,” “extreme,” “socialist,” whatever) “left” is actually not the real left at all. The fake left even hates (and suppresses) the real left far more than they do conservatives, Republicans, and the right. And both the fake left and the right are completely in bed together and united on what they *really* care about the most as their top priorities, as one uni-party as it were, appearance of mortal conflict through the political theater and professional wrestling of culture wars and identity politics and other arguments notwithstanding. The sooner people learn and discover that beyond the Matrix the better.
Times like this are when we need to support Epik, organizations like it and the important principles involved even more than we did before.
One hundred percent on everything. The Chinese military installation known as Twitter doesn’t allow me anywhere near it, but I have strongly supported Rob and Epik on Parler the last couple days. Canada is building “isolation” and “quarantine” camps for those that disagree. It’s coming, just like ICANN is for domains for wrongspeak. Thinking Rob Monster can stem this tide is like thinking Trump can. This is it.
It might help to GO SEE Paypal, pay a visit, instead of write 6 or 9 page rants? JS
Smart move.
“Cancel culture” Paypal now, Ugh.
i Trust Rob Monster!!
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