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Originally Posted by Catlady
But why aren't you equally outraged that Smashwords can refuse certain material? Why do you think it's OK for Smashwords to have certain standards and rules, but not PayPal? It seems logically inconsistent to me. Smashwords gets to use its discretion about its business practices, but you are upset when PayPal does.
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You are seriously asking why I am not equally outraged about Smashwords? Why aren't
you crawling up the wall yourself that Smashwords already made use of censorship
before Paypal stepped in? They did not make new guidelines, they had to
add to them. Except now that Smashwords is established, changing the rules in such a way is economical suicide. Paypal should not refuse ALL business with Smashwords, but have those questionable books unable to purchase through Paypal and leaving the rest alone. They would be
temporary out of stock until they can find an alternative form of payment. On such a short notice there was no choice though - and the fact that all books would have been affected.
If Smashwords missed something in the rules of Paypal, than that would have been different. They could have apologized, take the books down, and say that they will look for an alternative. Then switch, disallow Paypal, and put the books back. Hopefully that is exactly what is going to happen.
If I wanted to open an adult book store and disallow anything that does not have sex in it, then it would by no means be considered censorship.