[phantom_of_cato]

That really sounds like a lie, they are probably just responding to the backslash.

[dmatech]

PayPal themselves linked to it as upcoming official policy on their main site. It doesn't appear to be a publication mistake.

    Amendments to the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy
    Effective November 3, 2022:

Live link: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/upcoming-policies-f...

Archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20220930164438/https://www.paypa...

The PDF in question has since been replaced with a single blank page. You can see both revisions here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/https://www.payp...

[redeeman]

also, what does it matter if its a publication mistake?

paypal decided to come up with this schema, and entire policies written out, produce announcements and such, and we are to accept "well we didnt quite mean to publish this" ?

no, they are hostile actors, and nobody should be doing any business with them.