PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold funds for 180 days
Paypal has done this multiple times, here are some incidents.https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/My-Account/Permanent-BAN...https://medium.com/@puntofisso/paypal-closed-my-account-with...https://www.elliott.org/blog/banned-from-palpal-account-limi...https://www.success.grownupgeek.com/index.php/2008/04/05/pay...Completely relying on any third party is a bad idea. We should consider the risks when we signup to any service. Around this month we have seen multiple companies banning accounts without giving valid reasons MailChimp, Patreon, Slack(They had a reason but they didn't notify the users earlier, however they  appologized later)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18754860https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18715866https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18724107