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A spokesman for the company stated:

"An AUP notice recently went out in error that included incorrect information. PayPal is not fining people for misinformation and this language was never intended to be inserted in our policy... We're sorry for the confusion this has caused."

One is forced to wonder how "language [that] was never intended to be inserted in our policy" nevertheless found its way... into their policy. Certainly, it didn't materialize out of thin air.

Someone thought it a worthwhile enough idea to draft the language. Just one more indicator of the troubling impulses in much of corporate America when it comes to curtailing speech — or "wrongthink."

As Bonchie rightly notes:

"Regardless, it is an egregious attack on the principle of free speech for a payment processor to start fining its users because those users might disagree with the broader left politically. And don't kid yourself, that's exactly what this is about. Today's "misinformation" is tomorrow's confirmed fact, a dynamic that has played out many times during the COVID pandemic.

"The scourage of woke-ness in corporate America is only getting worse, and we can reasonably look at this PayPal move as a test run for far worse sanctions to come. Major banks will be next in line to try this stuff (they already have when it comes to guns). The censorship regime is real, and Democrats have successfully gained influence via crony captialism over the last decade."

The good news is: PayPal has reversed course on this proposed policy change. For now.

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Burton hails from the small Northern Territory town of Coolalinga, however, the crimes are said to have been committed in rural South Australia in 2019.

During the hearing on Thursday, prosecutors requested that the judge adjourn the case for ten weeks to give them an opportunity to conduct an electronic analysis of Burton's computer.

Burton's lawyers, pointing out that their client had already been in jail since June, requested that the trial be moved along "as fast as possible."

In the end, Magistrate Simon Smart sided with the prosecutors, ordering that Burton remain in custody until December when Burton will then have to plead to the charges.