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Originally Posted by ucfgrad93
So, Paypal should have to provide services for anything and everything?
I disagree. Just as a company can decide what to put on their shelves, Paypal has a right to not provide payment services to a site that provides content they object to. They are not saying that you can't buy what you want, they are saying that they have a right to deny service to something they find objectionable.
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First of all, kudos to making me laugh at the suggestion bankers have any sense of morality.
Second, we're not talking about a store selling what it wants to sell. We're talking about a bank deciding who does and does not get to be in business. and it's not like there's a competitor you can move to either. Suppose, for example, you work for a bar, and go to deposit your money in your local bank. Your bank looks at where you work and says "No. I object to alcohol and won't allow any business here from anyone associated with such an enterprise." And yet, it's the only bank in town. So this banker has just decided you don't get to have banking services. Furthermore, he's also decided the bar can't have banking services, and thus will probably not be able to stay in business. Do you want the bank making those decisions? Do you want faceless bankers in a far off state or even country making decisions on what legal material you get to read, or what gets sold?