Cryptocurrency: Paypal (the Central GovCorp Shitcoin) Censors Cute Tardigrades

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7wg3w/paypal-tardigrade-error

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Earlier this week, Archie McPhee, a Seattle-based gift seller (and
home of the Rubber Chicken Museum) launched a glittery, green
tardigrade ornament. It was a fitting addition to their squishy
micro-animal themed products: tardigrade mints, glow-in-the-dark
fingers, stress balls.
But when customers tried to buy the ornament using PayPal, some
received an error message: "This transaction cannot be completed
because it violates the PayPal User Agreement." It was happening to
enough tardigrade merchandise fans and sellers that several spoke out
on Twitter this week.
Archie McPhee tweeted on Friday that PayPal is blocking transactions
containing the word "tardigrade." Others are experiencing the
same—frustrations and stalled purchases on their water bear merch.
Other businesses have also reported tardigrade-related PayPal issues.
Two Photon Art, a small business that sells STEM-themed art, tweeted
in July that it had to rename its tardigrade enamel pin to "water
bear," because PayPal was holding its payments.
"We've contacted them and they told us we should just stop using the
word tardigrade," Archie McPhee tweeted. But if they have to change
all of their tardigrade merch descriptions, URLs, and names on their
tardigrade stuff to "water bear," that could limit how people looking
for niche, nerdy water bear decorations find them.
This isn't only an algorithmic fluke or extreme prejudice against
indestructible moss-piglets