Same here. I knew it would cost them more so I instantly disputed the $500 charge on my card. I’m shocked anyone is still using GoFundMe. I also closed Venmo and PayPal. We know we can speak with our wallets. I wish people weren’t so lazy in doing so. I’m not left, but I am anti-war. I’ve read GreyZone for years. In some ways I’m glad this happened to them - did they really think they’d be exempt from the machine? Why were they using GoFundMe in the first place???
Same here. Also, not using AirBNB. Wish the young kids would dump PayPal and Venmo and use something else. Then all us older folk would be forced to convert to stay relevant. I now have to give everyone cash.
What happened with AirBNB? I stopped using them because they require biometrics. But haven't heard about them cancelling people. (Btw vbro.com is an AirBNB alternative)
Great suggestion! It’s getting hard to find a company that hasn’t participated in illiberal practices, right? Do you remember when they weren’t political and we never had to worry about this? Or was I just too young to notice. AirBNB cancelled the account of the parents of some conservative I’ve never heard of. That was the second time I’ve heard of viewpoint discrimination by them. I may also not like the speech of this person that no one knew. But now this person gets free air time for this cancellation. You see how it’s not working?
that's vrbo. . . and yes, I stopped running an Airbnb to protest the ongoing "botification" of humans. As a host (and provider of the only "hard asset" Airbnb has, in the form of my home), I was dismayed when they blocked hosts from their first IPO in favor of billionaires, who got first dibs on the quick and easy money. I complained to no one, because Airbnb IS no one. It is run by robots. Even the humans who answer our distress calls when things go awry read from scripts and their replies are recorded. . . "for quality purposes?" No, for purposes of surveillance. This, too, is performed by robots. People are apparently going extinct at our own hand (see climate change, which is NOT a hoax but entirely manmade)—but it's just possible that dehumanization by manmade "intelligent" machines will get us first.
Same here. I knew it would cost them more so I instantly disputed the $500 charge on my card. I’m shocked anyone is still using GoFundMe. I also closed Venmo and PayPal. We know we can speak with our wallets. I wish people weren’t so lazy in doing so. I’m not left, but I am anti-war. I’ve read GreyZone for years. In some ways I’m glad this happened to them - did they really think they’d be exempt from the machine? Why were they using GoFundMe in the first place???
Same here. Also, not using AirBNB. Wish the young kids would dump PayPal and Venmo and use something else. Then all us older folk would be forced to convert to stay relevant. I now have to give everyone cash.
What happened with AirBNB? I stopped using them because they require biometrics. But haven't heard about them cancelling people. (Btw vbro.com is an AirBNB alternative)
Great suggestion! It’s getting hard to find a company that hasn’t participated in illiberal practices, right? Do you remember when they weren’t political and we never had to worry about this? Or was I just too young to notice. AirBNB cancelled the account of the parents of some conservative I’ve never heard of. That was the second time I’ve heard of viewpoint discrimination by them. I may also not like the speech of this person that no one knew. But now this person gets free air time for this cancellation. You see how it’s not working?
that's vrbo. . . and yes, I stopped running an Airbnb to protest the ongoing "botification" of humans. As a host (and provider of the only "hard asset" Airbnb has, in the form of my home), I was dismayed when they blocked hosts from their first IPO in favor of billionaires, who got first dibs on the quick and easy money. I complained to no one, because Airbnb IS no one. It is run by robots. Even the humans who answer our distress calls when things go awry read from scripts and their replies are recorded. . . "for quality purposes?" No, for purposes of surveillance. This, too, is performed by robots. People are apparently going extinct at our own hand (see climate change, which is NOT a hoax but entirely manmade)—but it's just possible that dehumanization by manmade "intelligent" machines will get us first.
I’m still using PayPal for a few things but dumped AirBnB after their silly buggers West Bank BS.