This has crossed the line for me. A lot of events in the past few years should have done that in retrospect, but whereas those instances could have been lost as part of a growing mass hysteria that PayPal fell prey to, this is a boldly outrageous move that falls solely on them.
I was approaching 10 years with my PayPal account and never had any major issues, but I've had enough of this death spiral so many North American and European companies are intent on going down. Continue to have your incestuous HR/PR departments influence critical business decisions on warped moral grounds and bend the company to the whims of juvenile opinion pieces spewed out in blatant coordination. The slightest ripple any viable startup causes - be it ideological or financial - is now grounds for instant termination. If they are to survive, then they must follow absurdly stringent regulations that the monoliths are so fortuitously unfettered by. When you demean and cast out entire swaths of a largely neutral userbase who do not follow lockstep with your ideology, where do you suppose they will go? To a competitor site. Continue to squash every little outlet like a deranged beast that sees red everywhere and the long term ramifications need not be stated.
Closing my account is severing a nice convenience in life, but I can adapt. To keep it open would be a cowardly half-measure. Nothing short of PayPal sacking everyone from the highest exec to the lowliest maintenance worker can convince me to come back at this point.
