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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
It's perfectly acceptable for me not to get involved in other people's lives trying to tell them what to read. It's ridiculous and hypocritical.
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But it is acceptable for PayPal to do business with a company that sells content to which they object?
It's not "hypocritical" for PayPal to decide they don't want to do business with a company that sells x y and z; in enforcing this policy, they aren't violating the ethical standards they're attempting to enforce.
PayPal doesn't want to deal with vendors of certain specific types of content, and shouldn't have to -- no more than you should be required to patronize the services of a company whose policies you don't like.
Further, Smashwords has a variety of choices for payment processing, and it's their own fault if they are so utterly dependent on PayPal that this requirement constitutes force rather than suasion.