During today's Commons debate on the Financial Services and Markets Bill, Miriam Cates MP rose to support new clause 27, which would prevent payment providers from refusing to supply a customer based on that customer exercising their lawful right to #freedomofexpression.
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In a terrific intervention, Miriam noted that PayPal's attempted demonetisation of the FSU was "not a one-off", and that it was "therefore hard to avoid interpreting PayPal's actions as an orchestrated, politically motivated move to restrict certain views in the UK."
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That was why, she added, "We must act to legally prevent payment providers from closing accounts on the basis of political beliefs, because if we don't global firms will put their own interests — financial, reputational, political — before any moral duty to act fairly."
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