“PayPal denied that the shutdown was related to the concerns about Tor, claiming only that “the situation has been determined appropriately” and refusing to offer a specific explanation.”
Larry Brandt had a PayPal account for almost 20 years. He used it to pay for servers running Tor nodes. PayPal banned him with a banner on his account page and never answered an email or a call. EFF went through his transactions and found nothing. A payment processor with no appeal process is a censor that doesn’t have to explain itself.