PayPal Freezes MailPile's Account

rysiek writes "Remember MailPile, the privacy-focused, community-funded FOSS webmail project with built-in GPG support? The good news is, the funding campaign is a success, with $135k raised (the goal was $100k). The bad news is: PayPal froze MailPile's account, along with $45k that was on it, and will not un-freeze it until MailPile team provides 'an itemized budget and your development goal dates for your project.' One of the team members also noted: 'Communications with PayPal have implied that they would use any excuse available to them to delay delivering as much of our cash as possible for as long as possible.' PayPal doesn't have a great track record as far as fund freezing is concerned — maybe it's high time to stop using PayPal?"

Comments

Re:"Maybe?"

[Anonymous Coward]

Isn't it time we start boycotting government a bit?

Yes. Stop driving on public roads, using your tap for water, sewage pipes for drains/toilet, and purchasing inspected food. The city will be by shortly to remove your streetlight and disconnect your electricity, water and sewage connections.

Don't try to cheat by "camping" in one of our public parks.

When your house catches on fire, make sure you have lots of buckets of rain water (no tap, remember?) to put it out, because the fire department will only come by to make sure your neighbors' houses are safe. If you get robbed, then I hope you are home, armed and a better shot than your robber, because the police won't stop to help.

Better yet, instead of inconveniencing us, why don't you just move to your own Ayn Rand/Libertardian paradise of Somalia, DRC, Sudan or Chad? There's no government to speak of, so you'll get everything that's coming to you.

Re:Who leaves money in a paypal account.

[zidium]

Use Paypal to send money to 3rd party merchants. Refuse to accept money for goods from Paypal if at all possible, and instead, tell them about Dwolla instead. They'll thank you for it, with their $0.10 flat fees.