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PayPal blocking transactions containing the word “tardigrade”
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twitter.com/archiemcphee
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bleepblorp
on Sept 11, 2020
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bleepblorp
on Sept 11, 2020
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Paypal's transaction filters have seemingly run into the Scunthorpe Problem[0] and have concluded that a microrganism[1] is offensive.
[0]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade