Tech giants like PayPal have no right to police customers’ views
Welcome to the new world of censorship by withdrawing essential services, courtesy of PayPal, the digital payments company based in America.
Its actions in shutting the accounts of some British lockdown sceptics, without proper explanation or warning, highlight the growing danger the tech giants pose to free speech. PayPal — remote, unelected and unaccountable — has no business policing what people can say or think in Britain or anywhere else. That it believes it can is dangerous for basic freedoms.
