PayPal abruptly announced a major new partnership with the Anti-Defamation League to investigate the financial transactions of its users.
PayPal’s own policies provide zero reassurance that the company refrains from using and abusing customer data however it wishes. The company’s “privacy” policy is anything but, as it merely lists all the information about users that PayPal reserves the right to gather and preserve.
An analysis of the historical record reveals that the ADL has a long history of using underhanded and even illegal tactics against its enemies, including full-blown espionage, theft, and surveillance.
Last January, the ADL published an article explaining that “Doxing Should Be Illegal,” but “Reporting Extremists Should Not.”
In other words, when the ADL or “activists” it agrees with dox their enemies online they are operating in the right “mental state,” so no matter the consequences of their behavior it is always good. But if the ADL’s opponents do the same behavior, it is by definition done with a “criminal mental state,’ and it can credibly be a criminal offense.
A group that panics over hand signs and the phrase “It’s Okay to Be White,” a group that illegally spied on thousands of Americans, a group that lies about supporting “free speech” while strongarming megacorporations into doing its bidding and demanding the cancellation of shows it doesn’t like.
The time to worry about this collaboration is right now.