Ideally, Paypal is a wonderful concept. However, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. The left is slobbering with lust over getting their fingers in yet another fulcrum area of money tranfer, both to line their pockets and move the currents of culture (tied to money) towards centralized control.
I think the key to responding to this will be to bail on those organizations which are leftist cesspools, tell them why, and support freedom loving outfits. There are a number of alt programs for everything from social media to money transfer, and new ones are popping up every day.
It may be discouraging in the beginning, as these outfits have grown spectacularly, and with good reason. They served a need, and people piled into them like commuters on a Bejing subway car. However, paypal, google, etc have gotten a bit too big for their britches and it is time to move on, let them wither and become yet another brick in the wall.
I am on the lookout for a liberty supporting, freedom advocating, free speech affirming engine for money transfer. Lots of entrepreneurial guys out there who see the need for this. Be alert and give it time.
Unless there is a complete CCP-like seizure of control over the internet at large (and then we will have other, bigger problems), we are still at a point where decentralized engines will have the advantage. These guys are cannibalizing the husks of their former success. Let them die. They will, you know.
Don’t forget the merchants who also use PayPal.
They’re involved in this, too .
Any merchants who remain silent in the face of what’s being done to their customers should be treated the same way as PayPal.
Dump them.