[KronisLV]

> They randomly withheld £20k from a business I was involved with for no stated reason and no direct means to talk to a human about it. It took months to resolve.

If only there was a regulatory framework to turn that into an extremely simple court case, and to also punish attempts of PayPal to ban users who stand up for access to their money.

If they’re a near-monopoly they shouldn’t be allowed to set their own rules.

[account42]

Exactly treating companies with huge market shares more like utilities that can't just refuse to do business with people for arbitrary reasons and have to follow due process would provide a natural pushback against monopoly building - much more effective than antitrust litigation could ever be.

It's always funny when people say these big companies can't provide a good service because that "wouldn't scale" as if their ability to scale is a god given right and not something that should be pushed back on itself.