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?"

[king neckbeard]

Nice strawman there. You probably wouldn't strongly prefer to live in any of Somalia's neighbors with governments either, such as Ethiopia. Whenever someone brings up Somalia in a government related argument, they are more or less screaming "I AM A DUMBASS!"