PayPal Unfreezes Moms for Liberty Account After Gov. DeSantis Crackdown on WOKE Banking: Report

PayPal has reportedly unfrozen Moms for Liberty’s account funds after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared that his state will crackdown on woke banking.

Payment platform PayPal allowed grassroots, anti-woke education group Moms for Liberty to access its funds after DeSantis’s new initiative against woke banking, Florida’s Voice reported. Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich reportedly told Florida’s Voice that her organization had been using PayPal for more than a year before the platform censored the group.

Descovich said that Moms for Liberty donates monthly via PayPal. The payment processor not only stopped these donor payments but froze $4,500 belonging to Moms for Liberty, and prohibited any transfer of the money out of the account, according to Florida’s Voice. PayPal reversed the blocking by allowing access to the funds.

PayPal notified Descovich that Moms for Liberty’s accounts were initially frozen during DeSantis’s July 15 speech at the Moms for Liberty National Summit, according to Florida’s Voice. DeSantis had announced his opposition to woke banking and the funds were released.

Moms for Liberty isn’t the first time Big Tech companies have blocked Moms for Liberty. Descovich told MRC Free Speech America in an interview in February that Facebook censored nearly 30 Moms for Liberty chapter pages and groups for “completely benign” content. 

She expressed concerns about future censorship at the time. “I think there’s great concerns,” she said. “Social media is now the town hall square. It’s where people get together. It’s where they communicate. It really inhibits and impacts communication from just the general public … to be able to discuss current issues. I think it’s important and if our pages keep going down, it makes people not want to participate.”

Twitter has since joined Facebook’s ranks in censoring Moms for Liberty. Last week, the group chided California in a Twitter post for putting children “at extreme risk from predatory adults.” Twitter removed the tweet for “hateful conduct,” according to screenshots in a Post Millennial report.

DeSantis’s announcement, which seemingly helped Moms for Liberty, specifically targeted woke environmental, social and governance criteria (ESG) used by banks and fund managers. ESG is repeatedly billed as a “socially conscious” movement, and investors use it to screen their potential investments. DeSantis observed that ESG can be used to push an ideological agenda and target certain people by the woke elite.

“They’re using things like social credit scores to be able to marginalize people that they don’t like,” DeSantis said, according to Florida’s Voice.

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