PayPal Locks Account of Media Company Over Syria News, Merit of Bitcoin
In January, a transaction sent by the Reminder to News Media Canada was blocked by PayPal for being noncompliant with PayPal’s “acceptable use policy.” Reminder, formerly known as the Flin Flon Daily Reminder, is a newspaper published three times a week in Canada. Reminder publisher Valerie Durnin sent a payment worth $242.95 to the News Media Canada team to enter an article entitled "Syrian family adapts to new life” to the annual Canadian Community Newspaper Awards. Prohibited news. Later, it was discovered that PayPal locked the account of News Media Canada because the transaction....
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