Paypal is Censoring Book Sellers

[falseyedee]

if you are a computer literate reader or a writer of erotica, porn, sci-fi, fantasy or other alternative genres, you probably use paypal to buy or sell the stories you read. recently paypal suspended the accounts of several online book sellers that specialize in selling books and ebooks in the above genres, requiring that they remove ALL the titles that included a list of "obscene" subjects.

please read victoria foxxe's post about her experience here:
http://victoriafoxxe.livejournal.com/7120.html

many of the themes we enjoy here are on the list of banned subjects. while i am not yet personally affected by this ban, i can easily see how some of my writing could fall under these blanket terms.

who of us wants a credit card processing company to determine what we can read? what we can buy? what we can sell? if they ban bdsm themes, what next? gay sex? graphic novels with kinky themes? political speech? if paypal succeeds with these smaller vendors, what will stop them from trying to do the same thing with amazon or barnes and noble or other larger vendors?

if you don't mind putting your name and address down, please sign this petition:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/7/sto...et-censorship/

if the board owner deems this too political, feel free to pull it from circulation.

[arpeejay]

I think it's totally on topic.

xoxo

richard

[Ragetiger]

Paypal been doing the same thing to some artists that do artwork with simular themes. . . it's really getting out of hand.