Paypal blocking SomethingAwful Katrina donation efforts?

By at 9:52 pm Saturday, Sep 3

Reader Mark Mazza says,
The owner of somethingawful.com, a fairly large counter-culture website, started a collection drive for Hurricane Katrina survivors via Paypal.

It appears that Paypal has locked him out of the collections account and is refusing to cooperate. His drive opened only today and accrued $20,000 in less than 24 hours (although, as a journalist myself I am keeping in mind the possibility that Paypal is simply investigating the account for swelling so fast -- this is still bullshit, pardon my french).

All of the somethingawful.com's normal content is gone (their servers were in New Orleans) and there is nothing on there that isn't safe to view at work.

Link. We welcome a reply from anyone at Paypal.

Previously:

PayPal and fee-free transactions for Katrina victims

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