Gays Against Groomers Banned by Google After PayPal, Venmo, ‘Massive Attack on Our Organization’
MIAMI (FLV) – Less than 24 hours after the anti-grooming organization Gays Against Groomers had their account disabled on payment processors PayPal and Venmo, the group said their Google account was also disabled.
“After being banned by @PayPal and @Venmo less than 24 hours ago, We have JUST been banned by @Google!” they announced on Twitter. “Big tech is coordinating a massive attack on our organization for trying to protect children. THIS IS INSANE.”
Gays Against Groomers is a coalition of gay people created to stop the sexualization and abuse of young children. They were recently seen outside of a meeting with a digital billboard displaying anti-grooming messaging at a Miami-Dade County school board meeting.
“We are an organization that consists entirely of gay people whose only mission is to safeguard children from abuse,” they say. “Woke homophobia is real.”
The Miami-Dade School Board voted 8-1 against the H-11 action which would recognize October as ‘LGBTQ+ History Month.’ The proposal was rejected because parents believed it conflicted with the state’s Parental Rights in Education bill, saying it was the parent’s right to decide whether to teach their children about gay and lesbian rights rather than teachers in public schools.
Moms for Liberty had a similar altercation with PayPal, having its funds frozen by the payment processing corporation. In August, DeSantis helped play a role in influencing the company to unfreeze their funds.
They said PayPal unfroze the money in the group’s account following Gov. Ron DeSantis’ announcement last week that Florida would crack down on “woke” banking.
Moms for Liberty was founded in 2021 by parents and former school board members. Their mission focuses on defending parental rights with a massive grassroots network of parents across the country.
Moms for Liberty Co-Founder Tina Descovich said the organization had operated on PayPal for more than a year before running into the most recent problems.
Many of their donors would give monthly automatically through PayPal. However, Descovich said PayPal sent notifications that they froze the organization’s accounts during DeSantis’s speech at Moms for Liberty National Summit July 15th.
“While he’s speaking, I started getting emails during that PayPal has stopped processing one by one all of our monthly donors,” Descovich said.
PayPal also froze the organization’s $4,500 and would not let them transfer the money out. PayPal told Descovich that they could not operate on the platform until the IRS approved the organization’s paperwork. However, Descovich said they PayPal had already accepted the paperwork they filed with the IRS, which is backlogged, in January of 2021.
