Delete PayPal Tweet Thread on 10/14/22

by: Jaffer Ali  (@Jaffer_Ali1)

The following short Twitter thread is an important one because PayPal announced and the rescinded the arrogant change in their AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) which stated that they would fine a user $2500 per EACH INFRACTION of what they considered “misinformation”.

If you read this, consider joining the Delete PayPal team. Here you go:

Those that sit atop w/ power have 2 basic ways to maintain their position: 1) Thru brute force as in authoritarian societies 2) Thru persuasion in liberal democratic societies. Both will control or at minimum influence the information landscape to maintain power. 1/

This is not new. Oligarchs have been doing this for thousands of years. It is important to understand the mechanics. They need to control narrative to maintain their position. With MSM, it was relatively easy to limit debate and push competing narratives to the margins. 2/

Social media initially changed this and continues to be a thorn to Oligarchs. Enter algorithmic suppression and outright canceling, yet the structure of social media makes it difficult for Oligarchs to *eliminate weeds” and those challenging official narratives are the “weeds”. 3/

There are many unwitting idiots that support Oligarch’s overall narrative control. It is quite easy to spot them and they cross the entire political spectrum. But algos are not effective in containing a bottom up protest. 4/

PayPal lending its resources to its fellow Oligarchs stepped in sh!t thu its arrogance. Their plan was to use economic threats to limit narrative inimical to the prevailing agenda. PayPal’s announced $2500 fine for “misinformation” was a poor euphemism for narrative control. 5/

PayPal’s gambit was a desperate gasp & basically an admission that social media can’t fulfill media’s historic role, which was/is and will always try to spread the myths & narrative of Oligarchic power. 6/

If you have read this far, the previous tweets form the rationale to #DeletePayPal. I deleted for my sons…and for my future grandchildren. Be an example that says, “Today I will not bend the knee”. Use whatever voice you have to spread the word. Delete PayPal today. 7/