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I mean, Paypal is a bank that isn't beholden to all the normal bank regulations and customer protection rules due to technicalities. They have been caught effectively seizing customer funds through locking accounts for questionable reasons before, and offer no reasonable way of recovering funds from locked accounts. Numerous stories of people operating online etsy (and similar) storefronts getting accounts locked for vague claims they were actively money laundering, with no means for appeal.
Anyone just now becoming aware of the paypal execs' corruption hasn't been paying attention.
There's a reason that a set of grifters who ran the place is nicknamed "The Paypal Mafia".
And Elon Musk is one of the "founders" (even though he actually got his company, X - not the current one -, merged with PayPal).