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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
To fairly judge PayPal's action, I would have to read the book(s) in question.
Since, as far as I know, none of us has done that, all we can discuss is whether there is any possible book that would be so repugnant to humane values that it is a good idea for PayPal to decline to help fund it. I'd say that, yes, I can imagine such.
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You don't have to read the books. Saying that you have not and that you assume nobody else here also has not makes it clear to me that you don't see the danger. I could even go so far and say that you would support Paypal even more after reading the books you disapprove of. Any book that is so bad to society that it needs to be banned will get banned. Except that would be done by the government in the real legal meaning of censorship, wether it be banned to sell, banned to own, banned to distribute, banned to sell to minors or any other form thereof.
Where do you draw the line? Paypal gets away with this, what is next? No more erotica at all! Fine no problem, not on my reading list. No more drugs! Fine, not on my reading list. Then no more smoking in books! Fine, whatever, I don't smoke anyway. You start to get what is going on?
Be thankful we do not (in the USA) live in a dictatorship like that. Do we have all freedom we want? Of course not, but then I do
not want to live in an anarchy. We do have freedom of speech. That people in this thread pull out of Paypal is a great way of showing disapproval. They see what is going on, even if their reading list might not be in danger (yet).