AFTER COINBASE, PAYPAL BANS SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM GAB ‘JUST BECAUSE’
Gab.ai, the social messaging platform born in 2016 as an answer to the “Big Social Monopoly” of extant social media giants, has lost access to its PayPal account.
PAYPAL: GAB SHOULD ‘FIND ALTERNATIVE’
Gab, which in June saw itselfunexpectedly banned from US cryptocurrency exchange and wallet provider Coinbase, did not receive an explanation from PayPal, the company’s decision being effective immediately.
“(Gab) is now banned from Paypal ‘just because,’” officials wrote on the platform’s Twitter account.
According to a reproduction of the email Gab received from PayPal, the company had opted to pursue its decision as part of its “right to terminate your account for any reason and at any time upon notice to you.”
More curiously, the notice does not even suggest Gab had flouted its User Agreement, and adds that its seller status or volume of sales did not factor in its decision.
