Hate Paypal, crappy service
Welcome to the club :P
Not surprising coming from PayPal, elementary OS should really just move away from them. Fun fact: If their PayPal account was banned that means all recent donators that sent them money through PayPal were also banned/had their accounts frozen.
I used to use PayPal maybe 15-20 years ago and used to donate to FOSS projects with it. At one point PayPal decided I was being shady and banned my account. At the time figured it was just my own problem but later on I heard from one of those FOSS projects, turned out that their own PayPal account was banned in the process due to receiving money from a banned account.
Wtaf
Did they end up on a US terrorism list for offering free things like filthy communists?
Offering free things TO filthy communists. Which makes them filthy by association. Everyone knows you can’t let communists have any help, otherwise how would we know it doesn’t work?
Just like Microsoft closing Libreoffice’s Outlook account for reasons.
My paypal account was forcibly closed for no given reason. I still don’t know why.
I had my paypal account deleted back in 2011 due to the wikileaks witch hunt at that time. Paypal was withholding money going from a crowdfunding campaign to Julian Assange. In hindsight, that should’ve been Europe’s wake-up call, but of course, who could’ve seen the looming cliff behind a handsome fella like Obama.
I had a PayPal account at some point for some reason. Then one day I was out with my family and my phone started getting blown up with password reset requests, then emails from PayPal saying there was suspicious activity on my account originating in India, and then I immediately removed all payment methods from my account, and shut down the account. Never again.
I shut mine down a few months ago. I hadn’t used it in years, but one of my coworkers had their Paypal hacked and the process of getting them to fix it sounded horrible.