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PayPal blocking transactions containing the word “tardigrade” (twitter.com/archiemcphee)
5 points by bleepblorp on Sept 11, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


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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