FCC Nixes PayPal's Forced Robocalls Plan

jfruh writes: As part of a new user agreement created in preparation for its spinoff from eBay as an independent company, PayPal told users that the only way to avoid advertising robocalls from PayPal and its 'partners' was to stop using the service. This caused something of a firestorm, and now the FCC is saying the policy may violate Federal law, which requires an explicit opt-in to receive such messages.

Comments

Oh.

[HideyoshiJP]

I hadn't bothered reading the new terms of service. Had I read about this before this FCC news, I would have cancelled. They've always been a little shady anyway, always wanting to ride that line between a service and a bank, while not wanting to fall into bank regulations.

Thank you FCC

[ITRambo]

Lately the FCC seems to be the only competent part of the federal government.

Re:Thank you FCC

[ShanghaiBill]

Lately the FCC seems to be the only competent part of the federal government.

"Rachel from Cardholder Services" would disagree with that assessment. How come the NSA can track every phone call, yet the FCC is too incompetent to find even the most egregious robo-callers?

Re:Thank you FCC

[antiperimetaparalogo]

Do you want the US to be the World Police or do you not?

I am a Greek NATIONALIST: i want the US to be the World Police - someone must do it, and History proved that they was (and still are) the bravest for the job... if not them, who?

Lawyerly bullshit ..

[gstoddart]

Yes, but PayPal is making the bullshit argument that continuing to use the service is opt-in.

Because PayPal is, and has always been, ran by assholes who don't give a shit about their users.

And when it can come down to "let us spam you or lose access to our service", they're just doing more of the same.

For some reason we've accepted that corporations can change the terms any time they want to, and claim to have implied consent because you didn't stop using it.

Which when you're talking about entity which might have your money or impact your livelihood, is a pretty douchebag move.

Which is exactly why I'll never deal with PayPal.

I would drop them like a fucking rock

[Tyr07]

Right now I use them for my payment gateway and online transactions.

If paypal demanded I receive robo calls on my fucking phone line as part of their fucking service, as someone who has been completely happy with paypal up to that point, I'd drop them like the biggest fucking rock into the biggest fucking ocean with a large karploosh like someone taking a giant shit and flushing it down the fucking toliet.

It's bad enough that ads all over visually and sometimes audio ads on webpages. You think my person communication device for talking to people I know is another platform for fucking advertisements? Fuck you you fucking bastards, I'd close my fucking account so fucking fast.

It would be the god damn end of paypal. Everyone would switch back to using their CC online or another provider would step in and paypal would hopefully be permanently fucked hard.

If anything they'd piss me off so fucking much that I would personally find each paypals employee phone numbers for their cell phones and robo call the fuck out of it, Always going "Do you like this? How do you fucking like it? I say you agreed to it by annyoing the piss out of me. Do you like this? How do..."

and to this day...

[Lead Butthead]

... as PayPal fell under the banking regulations and played by a different set of rules... Just like working at a bank.

And to this day PayPal continues to fight tooth and nail to have itself _NOT_ classified as a bank in the US to evade banking regulations.