Far-right activist Laura Loomer banned from PayPal
Far-right activist Laura Loomer has been kicked off of PayPal, she announced via Instagram on Tuesday.
Loomer, a conservative figure who has come under fire for anti-Muslim comments, wrote on Instagram that the payment platform banned her “for no reason whatsoever.”
Loomer in her post blamed the suspension on a recent story from Right Wing Watch that accused her of having ties to United West, a group that says its mission is stopping “the expansion of Shariah law in the USA” and has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
A PayPal spokesperson confirmed Loomer’s ban to the Daily Beast. She told the paper to “f— off” when reached for comment.
{mosads}Loomer said that she planned to take legal action against “the Left wing terrorists and tech tyrants who are trying to shut me down.”
“I have nothing to lose anymore, so trust me when I say I will stop at nothing to make sure justice is served for the way Silicon Valley has disenfranchised me, falsely accusing me of being a white supremacist, a Nazi, anti-Muslim, a racist, a bigot, and every other smear in the book,” she wrote.
Loomer said she has accumulated $40,000 in credit card debt for her right-wing activism, and asked her followers to send checks to her personally instead of supporting her via PayPal.
“I can’t even exist in society because the actual Nazis in tech and on the left constantly ban me because I post facts. How am I supposed to pay my bills?” She wrote. “I can’t get a regular job because I have been accused of being a Nazi. Am I supposed to be homeless?”
Loomer, who was kicked off of Twitter in November, said in her post that she has also been banned from Uber, Lyft, GoFundMe and Venmo. She is one of a number of far-right figures to be banned by tech companies.
She was banned from Uber and Lyft after calling for the creation of a new rideshare app that does not employ Muslims.
Loomer chained herself to Twitter’s New York city office in November to protest her suspension from the platform.
And last month, she and another far-right activist were arrested in California for trespassing on the grounds of the governor’s mansion in protest of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) stance on immigration.
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