International Employer Initiated PayPal Buyer Claim Without Any Reason

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I worked for this employes for a month, and he only paid me for half-month then suddenly replaced me after I delivered the MVP. And he was okay with the result. then he immediately cut me off without paying me the payment for the other 1/2 month.
So he made a paypal buyer claim, because I dont have access to our messages (because he already cut me of in Slack and access to the company mail) on his satisfaction with the MVP, I lost the paypal buyer claim and it was immediately refunded to his account.
I reviewed the contract he didn't follow the contract on his terms.
He made me sign an NDA but it was on his home country not mine. And I'm not thinking twice about breaking it because he himself did not follow the contract.
Actions I'm planning to do:

Go Public on this and be vocal about everything to warn other freelancers
Make the product open source. (Since he refunded the payment supposed to be)
Reported him to the platform.

I want to make sure no one can become a freelancer of this client ever again. Who takes advantage and rips-off.
Are there any actions I could take? I also sent him a warning already. I feel ripped off and frustrated.

Valorum · Answer

You seem to be acting out of anger rather than considering the most sensible course of action, which is to briefly report your unsatisfactory experience with this client to whichever site he found you on, and then move on with your life.
While you may gain some small measure of satisfaction from damaging their reputation or trashing their software product, the reality is that unless you have a huge megaphone (a twitter account with 100K followers, for example) your complaints will make only the tiniest impact on them and may provoke lawsuits, defamation claims and other forms of retaliation on their part. They may even use the same tactics against you to damage your reputation and future clients may be put off using someone who is happy to trash a client when the relationship doesn't go well.
Unless you plan to sue them (in which case your lawyer can bill you $90 an hour to tell you to shut up), the best course of action is to accept this as somewhat expensive lesson in client management.

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