PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
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Re: PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
#2Anyone care to guess as to why? At face value it seems like a very odd word to censor, I have absolutely no clue what the motivation might be.
Re: PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
#3Thanks to PayPal I just learned a lot about Tardigrades. Interesting creatures.
Re: PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
#4Anyone care to guess as to why? At face value it seems like a very odd word to censor, I have absolutely no clue what the motivation might be.
cause it contains (starts with) "tard"
Re: PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
#5The solution paypal gave "don't use word tardigrade" is wrong from product point of view
Re: PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
#6Thanks to PayPal I just learned a lot about Tardigrades. Interesting creatures.
Unpopular opinion but I think we have a civic responsibility to put them on probes and crash them into every planet in the solar system. Those cute little water bears are nature's survivors.
Re: PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
#7Per [0], a possible answer to this seems to be that an arms dealer had connections to a company called Tardigrade Ltd. and all transactions with firms like these are prohibited which is why the word "Tardigrade" made it into PayPal's filter.
As long as companies like PayPal have issues like that, or with moderation in case of Youtube, Twitter or Facebook, I'd claim neither of these companies have actually solved scale. If they can not properly deal with the issues that arise of scale, they haven't solved it at all. They might be reaping the benefits and dumping the issues on others but they haven't solved anything else at all.
[0] https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1304564003859918849
Re: PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
#8Here's some context: https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/n7wg3w/paypal-tardigr...
Likely not due to the Scunthorpe problem like one might expect, but due to an arms dealer having sold weapons through a shell company named Tardigrade.
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#9Farther down the thread:
A few people mentioned OFAC sanctions, so I investigated a bit more. In Dec 2019, US Dept of Treasury sanctioned companies linked to Serbian arms dealer Slobodan Tesic, including Cyprus-based Tardigrade Ltd. So PayPal flags tardigrade ornaments by mistake.Re: PayPal is currently blocking all transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
#10Duplicate submission from several hours ago: