Please actually read the article

The company was originally established by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek in December 1998 as Fieldlink. Later it was renamed Confinity,[9] a company which developed security software for hand-held devices.[10] When it had no success with that business model, it switched its focus to a digital wallet.[11] The first version of the PayPal electronic payments system was launched in 1999.[12]

In March 2000, Confinity merged with X.com, an online financial services company founded in March 1999 by Elon Musk, Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne, and Ed Ho.

Musk founded a company that merged with the company that invented PayPal.

PayPal was not founded by Musk

That’s not a counterargument lmao are you serious?

Holy non-sequitur

They blocked the TikTok domain in China. What would you call that, if not a ban?

You are naive if you believe they aren’t going to sever the communities. That was always going to happen.

TikTok is banned in China, so why would anyone ever expect this would be different in this case?

The argument isn’t that they’re “evil”, it’s that they could be used as tools by strategic rivals.

Nvidia is already profitable and has been for over a decade.

How much more does it cost to the alternatives?