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[ PRIVACY Forum ] PayPal sparks furor over limits on 'obscene' e-books
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Wed Mar 7 19:26:17 2012
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PayPal sparks furor over limits on 'obscene' e-books
http://j.mp/yt0cOX (Reuters)
EFF and other groups including the Authors Guild, the American
Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression and the Association of
American Publishers are planning to send a letter to PayPal on
Wednesday asking the company to reverse its policy. PayPal "is now
holding free speech hostage by clamping down on sales of certain types
of erotica," the groups said, according to a draft of the letter sent
to Reuters. "We strongly object to PayPal functioning as an enforcer
of public morality and inhibiting the right to buy and sell
constitutionally protected material."
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The primary issue here is that -- even with disgusting themes
involving illicit and illegal activities -- purely written works
traditionally have very strong first amendment protections, and
payment processors would not seem to be displaying appropriate
behavior through their own ad hoc, unilateral prohibitions against
legal works.
--Lauren--
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