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by dnet 1344 days ago
> After several lawsuits and years of backlash Paypal has stopped seizing people's money illegally.

Flipper Zero project might disagree:

https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/flipper_zero/status/156719464...

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/flipper-zero-paypal/

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And it seems like they're trying to experiment with new legal ways to seize funds, like a $2500 fine for offensive speech: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33062320
Already rescinded. Please keep up.
They simply got blow-back and retracted that new AUP and replaced it with a blank single-page PDF, but very specific, legal language doesn't just get inserted "by mistake". AUP changes, especially incredibly controversial and possibly existential changes, will obviously go through multiple levels of approval and legal at a company the size of PayPal. They just got caught.
The 2500$ fee isn't rescinded - it was only pulled for that specific case.
I guess that the most recent tweet, that a shipping container of 15k units has been seized by US Customs, might be related.

Could PayPal be acting under government orders, on this one?

Already rescinded, with a bullshit line about how it was a mistake in the press release.
Clearly not a mistake.