It is probably real, since PayPal clearly states that you need pre-approval to accept payments from mature content.

https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/paypal/acceptableuse-full

Apparently Bloomberg ordered the takedown of a GamersNexus video because they used one of their clips. The video was about the smuggling of GPUs into China, so the assumption is that Bloomberg is actually trying to silence the story.

That link explains nothing, it just tells you what people are using. Why does a game requiring a GPU feature mean, by your own words, the death of optimization?

How does requiring a GPU feature translate into bad optimization?