🖕 Fuck PayPal

And fuck Linus Tech Tips for intentionally keeping quiet about this after they found out.

  • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
    51·
    3 days ago

    They didn’t hide it, but a huge portion of their audience doesn’t read the forums. A 10 minute video of Linus ranting about them would have opened this scandal to a wider audience years ago.

    • Retro_unlimited@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      3 days ago

      Linus usually likes to rant about it on the WAN show then they usually make a clip for YouTube, but weird he didn’t do that for honey, maybe he didn’t know how far the scam went.

      • whats_all_this_then@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Especially considering he hasn’t been shy about ranting about a lot of things from (insert latest apple thing) to “fucking eggshell”

      • zqps@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        21·
        3 days ago

        As creator that makes some of their profits from affiliate links, I don’t see how that could be the case for him.

        Seems more likely they had a reason to avoid beef with PayPal.

        • tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          non disparagement clause

          Not the level of a non-compete clause but that’s a scummy thing I hope is not legal.

          • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            It’s fairly common. As far as legal, that will depend on the jurisdiction and the mood of the judge.

    • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      3 days ago

      There may have been non-disclosure agreements between Linus tech tips and PayPal Honey. They may have threatened to sue him if he went public. I’m assuming we’ll find out the details in the next few weeks.