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Old 05-12-2011, 01:32 PM   #199
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Still have to disagree with you.

They can have a vague "no objectionable stuff" rule and decide on an individual basis what constitutes objectionable stuff to them. It may not be objectionable to me or to you, but if they deem it so, then it is so on their site. There is nothing that requires them to apply any consistency in what they consider objectionable. Again, we might want them to do so, but they are under no legal obligation to treat what they might consider pornography in a consistent manner.
Yes, they are: it's against the law to do business with some people and not others and imply you have the same standards for everyone.

They can use whatever standards they want, but they can't say "straight sex is allowed to be explicit; gay sex is limited to kissing"--at least, not in much of the US; discrimination by sexual orientation is illegal. And while they're allowed to say "we have content requirements for books, which we're not going to tell you," they're not allowed to have different content requirements for different clients and not tell them what's different. (I'm not sure they're allowed to have different requirements, period; that's one of those fine points of trade law. But I know they're not allowed to claim standards or consistency that don't exist.)
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