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Originally Posted by ucfgrad93
Paypal has the right to determine what sort of businesses they want to be associated with. For example, they don't have to provide payment services to a porn site. This is no different. For what ever reason, Paypal has decided that they don't want to provide services to Smashwords because of material they find objectionable. They are giving Smashwords the choice. Comply with the demand or find another way to receive payment.
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I think any retailer can decide what they do and do not want to stock, but I don't believe that a payment company should have that same right. It shouldn't be up to them to decide what customer who
do want to buy the items now can't. Obviously, if someone is using paypal to buy those items, then they want them. I don't think it's up to Paypal to decide that they can't have them by telling the retailer what they can and can't sell.
I'd also be pissed if I found that my Visa or Mastercard decided they could go into Books-A-Million or Barnes and Noble and tell them that they had to pull certain books and magazines or they could no longer use that form of payment.
I'm the consumer, and it's
my right to decide what I want to buy with my money (even loaned money) and then I can decide whether I want to give a store my business based on what they sell. I don't agree that a third party can do that
for me.