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PayPal backs off from censoring book content
In late February we reported that PayPal had forced its merchants that publish and distribute e-books to censor erotic literature.
On March 2nd, The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) joined the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) in a protest against PayPal’s censorship.
The pressure and widening outcry in the media was successful in pushing back the online payment processor’s gambit to dictate its clients’ content.
EBay Inc.’s PayPal unit moved Tuesday to soften a controversial policy that would have restricted the use of its payment-processing services by digital-book merchants that sell material that could be considered obscene.
Now, PayPal will not punish merchants that sell erotica (text), but it will still cancel accounts that sell books with erotic imagery that PayPal deems obscene.
