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Old 02-26-2012, 10:47 PM   #83
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga View Post
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.
If paypal wanted to be the moral police of the internet...they should have started the way they planned to continue. And they didn't. And this is just a form of bullying.

I always give people and companies that claim one thing and do another the side eye.
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