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Originally Posted by kirant
Bit off topic guys...but how much legal right did PayPal/Mastercard/Visa have in freezing his accounts? I've heard of cases where one's assets have been frozen by said companies before for being charged with something (and at least PayPal's sites do state that they're allowed to remove an account if its owner is caught in illegal activities)...but is it an overextension of their powers to do this? I mean, Assange hasn't been officially found guilty of such actions yet and my interpretation of the rules laid out by PayPal are a bit iffy.
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I don't know how much for VISA/MASTERCARD yet... but Paypal is a different beast than than the other two altogether. They try to act as a banking organization but when the US tried to regulate them as such, they moved their operations off US soil. As for the rights... Paypal has a 25 page long TOS where they can freeze/terminate your account for any number of reasons. By using paypal you are agreeing to their TOS and they can terminate based on rules outlined there.
For example, in their TOS your account can be terminated for the simple act of requesting a chargeback from your back on an unauthorized transaction. Maybe one of Assange's donors initiated a chargeback
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PayPal reserves the right to terminate or limit account access privileges of buyers in any of the following cases: abuse by a buyer of the reversal process provided by the buyer's issuing bank; filing a chargeback against an unauthorized transaction;
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http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr...plaint-outside
Check out the wikipedia page for more criticism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#...nd_limitations