On February 12, PayPal has blocked SouthFront’s account (southfront@list.ru), which has been used by us to collect donations for over the past years. Now we cannot receive direct donations or transactions through our PayPal account (southfront@list.ru).
The formal reason is that there were signs of alleged commercial activity on our account. Obviously, this is false.
This claim is nothing more than a formal pretext. SouthFront has not made any new transactions or unusual activity via this account. All activity was completely transparent and typical, as in all previous years.
The blocking of the PayPal account is a one more example of the unprecedented pressure that SouthFront Team faces. As this case shows, in recent months, this pressure evolved in new forms.
As you know, in 2020, Google Ads already blocked SouthFront’s account used to run ads on southfront.org to support our monthly donation budget. Then, the system also frozen the funds collected for about 1.5 months.
On top of this, in 2020, mainstream social media platforms (YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) launched a coordinated censorship campaign against SouthFront. They blocked our main accounts and even banned links to southfront.org on Facebook and Instagram.
The US State Department and then Secretary of State Mr. Mike Pompeo also presented a lengthy report, “Pillars of Russia’s Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem”. At least 13 of the 77 pages of this report were dedicated to SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence as a “pillar” of Russian disinformation and propaganda.
Roughly speaking, SouthFront work and independent coverage of topical questions of the international agenda were causing a strong butthurt even among members of the previous US administration. The scale of hysteria of the current neo-liberal/globalist leadership of the US over our work can be easily imagined.
Despite the unprecedented pressure from the powerful foes, SouthFront was not destroyed. Yes, we lost a part of our audience reach and suffered a particular damage. However, we were able to continue our work thanks to your support.
Hundreds of thousands of people from around the world read, watch and share SouthFront content. The ongoing censorship campaign contributed to the strengthening of SouthFront credibility as an independent source of coverage and analyses. Expectedly, this causes a concern among our ill-wishers.
The blocking of SouthFront’s PayPal account (southfront@list.ru) became an expected development in a long series of hostile actions against our team.
Nonetheless, this move still damaged our organization. The amount blocked on the account includes all the existing SouthFront reserves.
On February 15, we had a phone conversation with a PayPal Support Team employee and the situation became fully clear. The decision to censor SouthFront was politically and ideologically motivated. It was not related to any SouthFront activity in the payment system.
In particular, PayPal declared that it will not allow us to refund donations of people that supported SouthFront. This happened regardless the fact that PayPal takes a notable fee (~8%) for every donation.
This goes contrary to PayPal’s own policies. Furthermore, the information that SouthFront should be able to refund received transactions was officially provided by PayPal in an email regarding the suspension of our account. It was said that in our case PayPal will not follow its own terms of service without any additional explanation.
Also, during our phone conversation with PayPal employee, the PayPal representative accidentally leaked information that the formal pretext to impose limitations on SouthFront’s account was not the real reason but the kind of ‘approximation’ to the real reason. PayPal declared that it will take no actions in response to our appeal and will reject any legal claims.
In this difficult moment, we urge you to support SouthFront in all possible ways.
We ask people who donated to SouthFront via PayPal in the previous months to create tickets demanding the immediate removal of all the limitations from SouthFront’s PayPal account (southfront@list.ru). The draft text of the appeal that can be used for this:
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SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence Team
Southfront only incite violence and it is against world peace and pushing idiots to escalate thinking they have anything certain to stand on but at the end Southfront is leading these low IQ people down a dark path of miscalculations with death and destruction on the other end nothing good for them and their civilizations and lives
Communicate your Idlib coordinates, we have an Amazon package for you.
Communicate your pxssy and so that I can come inside of it
You first. I can hear from the box: Maaa Maaa. Do you know what could it be?
Dear Johnny B. Allan, we want to ask you to provide some examples of inciting violence by SouthFront. From our point of view, SouthFront stands for the norms of international law, national sovereignty and supports the global peace and stability. If you use the term “world peace” to describe the dictatorship of a narrow group of people in certain jurisdictions, yes, you are right, we stand against it. We stand for the multicolor, multicultural and multinational world in which every national or social system have a right to determine its own development path in a way that would not violate rights of others. We’ve regularly faced such accusations. As a rule, these accusations are used by so-called ‘warriors of lights’ i.e. puppets or agents of those who are often marked as ‘globalists’. At the same time, we are always open for exchange of opinions and will be glad if you describe your position in details and with examples. Sincerely yours, SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence Team
You need to explain precisely how SF is accomplishing these things. After you tell us what they are , of course. You have not done this, SF, and everyone else have no idea what you’re bleating about. SF isn’t even armed, or looking your way with intent. You’ve been asked twice, politely, it’s a simple question. Yet somehow you have no answers, plenty of ad hominem I see. The same tired old worn out format, with the fresh energetic face of yet another useful idiot. High steppin’ down the same old trail, about to step on that same rake as his/her predecessor’s have. While you’re here take a moment to donate some fiat US Petrobucks. SF, and followers should be compensated to tolerate you’re nonsense. You are toxic, and a Government warning label should be fastened to your forehead.
when CIA employee joanie makes claim, it is always a lie–pathetic
Dear Johnny B. Allan & Co, we want to ask you to provide some examples of inciting violence by SouthFront. From our point of view, SouthFront stands for the norms of international law, national sovereignty and supports the global peace and stability. If you use the term “world peace” to describe the dictatorship of a narrow group of people in certain jurisdictions, yes, you are right, we stand against it. We stand for the multicolor, multicultural and multinational world in which every national or social system have a right to determine its own development path in a way that would not violate rights of others. We’ve regularly faced such accusations. As a rule, these accusations are used by so-called ‘warriors of lights’ i.e. puppets or agents of those who are often marked as ‘globalists’. At the same time, we are always open for exchange of opinions and will be glad if you describe your position in details and with examples. Sincerely yours, SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence Team
The whole place is littered with anti-sovereign states and their ethblishments writing mostly inaccurate and highly provocative contents against them 24/7 and the comments itself sounds as if they wanna shower on the blood of infants from these targetted sovereign states.
If all the inciting to violence you are doing on this website is unnoticable to you then there is nothing that can convince you of what is actully provocative content that incites violence.
That idea itself is against world peace.
Southfront is not only inciting violence or misleading the less intelligent but it is waging public war on several sovereign UN member states. The US, The Gulf states, Turkey and Israel
Care to tell us your country of origin, there Jonathan ? But Jonathan, you are the only one alive that can possibly convince SF, but you’re withholding what SF desperately needs to know to convince itself it’s of the wrongdoing SF can’t locate, and identify anywhere in it’s content. SouthFront needs your help Johnathan.
It is you and your kind that has declared war on the rest of the world, and even your fellow countrymen.
Who are you to rate our intelligence? What are you , the thought police?
Also.tell your saudi bosses to fire your loser ass and just send the money to SF directly instead. Save yall.a couple bucks since your hemorraghing it in Yemen
Well it is Southfront losing money unless they change their ways. This website is neo-nazi website everyone kinda knows this
well-said…full racist pricks
projecting your nazi sensibilities?
I know you are a nazi–you have revealed this repeatedly
You obviously a liar who dislikes objective truth because it exposes the evil that you’re shilling for. Falsely accusing others of the crimes that you support that are being committed by the perps that you mention who are the biggest cause of war and state sponsored terrorism on the planet is standard disinfo peddling.
CIA Joanie spreading her disinformation
Johnny, give me an example of South Front’s inciting any kind of violence please.
Hi Southfront staffs. What about your negationnism of Uygurs persecution and CCP terrorist propaganda? Link of article in question : https://southfront.org/bbc-propaganda-against-china-concentration-camps-for-uighurs/
Best regards.
Speaking of globalism, you can’t use Paypal and at the same time be against globalism ;)
Seems like some your articles are also being pulled down. I was looking for the report on Telephone Queen Harris that had seen before now I can’t find it anywhere.