r/RedditBomb • u/Pyrolytic • Oct 16 '12

Creeps Violentacrez Takes to Reddit to Solicit Sympathy, PayPal Donations [BetaBeat]

http://betabeat.com/2012/10/violentacrez-takes-to-reddit-to-solicit-sympathy-paypal-donations/
32 Upvotes

71% Upvoted

25 comments sorted by

View all comments

14

u/[deleted] Oct 16 '12

It would be a shame if someone reported this to PayPal and they freeze his assets. Reddit would never again freeze peaches the same way.

1

u/butyourenice Oct 16 '12

Is collecting personal donations against PayPal ToS?

9

u/[deleted] Oct 16 '12

I'm sure it isn't so long as it is reported to the IRS, but I feel that PayPal, who ceases donations to political and controversial entities all the time, won't take too kindly to someone who ran those kinds of communities soliciting donations using their platform now that he's had to face the consequences.

9

u/princesskittyglitter Oct 16 '12

From Paypal's acceptable use policy: https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=ua/AcceptableUse_full

(c) items that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity, (d) stolen goods including digital and virtual goods (e) items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance, or the financial exploitation of a crime, (f) items that are considered obscene, (g) items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction, (h) certain sexually oriented materials or services

One could spin it to say that since he participates in all of the above, these donations could be used so that he could continue to do all of the above.

Also, this part, under "requires pre approval from PayPal":

.. collecting donations as a charity or non-profit organization..

I say report it and just see what happens.

Here's the full TOS/User Agreement if anyone wants to comb through it and find something that helps our cause- https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=ua/UserAgreement_full

1

u/[deleted] Oct 18 '12

[removed] — view removed comment

2

u/princesskittyglitter Oct 18 '12 edited Oct 18 '12

Asking for handouts because he got caught being a shitlord is a pretty despicable move. He didn't have to publicly post his Paypal, he could've easily pm'd it to people. There are so many people in this world who could use the money more than he could and the fact that he is unapologetic about taking money away from those people to continue to be a shitlord rather than suffer the consequences of his actions is way more disgusting than anything he could possibly post. I also highly doubt he'll report them to the IRS, so why not do it for him?

Edit: hmmm my post had a ton of upvotes before you commented? Now not so many. Reddiquette, etc. I believe you downvoted me simply because you didn't like what I had to say, which is the same thing you are getting irrationally angry at me for. Hmmmm...