PayPal has been doing this sort of thing for years. I had a very beneficial relationship with PayPal in the early 2000's using them for both personal activities and business activities.<p>When they launched their service to function as a website payment processor, I made use of that as well and it was fantastic.<p>Then ebay bought them and and they were no longer interested in providing service to anyone that they deemed to be undesirable.<p>Over the years since then, anyone doing business through them could wake up one day and find that they were the next company / interest / whatever that they decided they didn't like and the story was all the same: held funds, lifetime ban, no discussion, no debate, no recourse.<p>While it's unfortunate that this particular group of individuals have been targeted by a bunch of jerks, this is known behavior of PayPal as a company. The long and the short of it is that anyone doing business through PayPal is doing business on borrowed time from day one, and it's been that way for over a decade.