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Nearly two dozen rights groups, including the European Legal Support Center (ELSC) and our partner 7amleh, have joined together to tell PayPal and its subsidiary Venmo to shape up its policies on account freezes and closures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCompanies like PayPal and Venmo have hundreds of millions of users. Access to their services can directly impact an individual, company, or nonprofit\u2019s ability to survive and thrive in our digital world,\u201d said EFF International Director of Freedom of Expression Jillian York. \u201cBut while companies like Facebook and YouTube have faced substantial scrutiny for their history of account closures, financial companies like PayPal have often flown under the radar. Now, the human rights community is sending a clear message that it\u2019s time to change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PayPal also has an history of closing accounts of Palestinian rights activists<\/a> and of lacking of services in Palestine, as reported<\/a> by 7amleh. More than 170 000 people also signed a petition<\/a> asking PayPal to stop discriminating against Palestinians. Its transparency must be addressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full letter to PayPal and Venmo here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nearly two dozen rights groups, including the European Legal Support Center (ELSC) and our partner 7amleh, have joined together to tell PayPal and its subsidiary Venmo to shape up its policies on account freezes and closures.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[78,75],"test-2":[],"country":[],"blog_categories":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-statements","tag-human-rights","tag-paypall"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Media Coverage"},{"value":30,"label":"Statement"}],"post_tag":[{"value":78,"label":"human rights"},{"value":75,"label":"Paypall"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/elsc.support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pexels-brett-jordan-5437587-1024x768.jpg",1024,768,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Bashar","author_link":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/author\/bashar\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Media Coverage","slug":"uncategorized","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Mentions or features of ELSC in external media.","parent":0,"count":15,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":15,"category_description":"Mentions or features of ELSC in external media.","cat_name":"Media Coverage","category_nicename":"uncategorized","category_parent":0},{"term_id":30,"name":"Statement","slug":"statements","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":30,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Public positions, opinions, or reactions from ELSC.","parent":0,"count":34,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":30,"category_count":34,"category_description":"Public positions, opinions, or reactions from ELSC.","cat_name":"Statement","category_nicename":"statements","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":78,"name":"human rights","slug":"human-rights","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":78,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":75,"name":"Paypall","slug":"paypall","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":75,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"test-2","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/test-2?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"blog_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_categories?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}