I agree. I just spent an hour trying to close my account because of Thiel: No racist Trump supporter is getting a dime of my business. And yes, Theil still gets zillions from PayPal, and is still "associated" with them, despite what the customer service gal tried to tell me on the phone.
I discovered that Paypal will not let me close my account for 180 days (half a year) after the last transaction. I can't believe that's legal. Further, they won't let me remove my bank account from my account--I have to retain one valid form of payment. The only recourse would be to actually close my checking account at Wells Fargo. Unbelievable.
So I spent an hour going onto every app and vendor that was set up with PayPal, and removing Paypal as the source of payment.
Now I'm busy writing to journalists I know at the NYT and Wash Post and SF Chron to see if I can get them to do a fullscale investigative piece or two.
I'd like to know how many people are trying to cancel their Paypal accounts, and how many have run into the roadblocks that I did. I'd like to know how it's legal for Paypal to not allow me to discontinue a service I no longer want, or not allow me to remove my personal banking information from a service I no longer want. And I'd like to know how much Thiel's disgusting support for a treasonous nazi thug is hurting Paypals' bottom line (I hope it bankrupts them).
Anyone feel like writing a piece on this for HuffPost?
