So with all the stuff that kept coming up about Paypal censoring online retailers like Smashwords, All Romance eBooks, and Bookstrand I got frustrated and flustered. I didn't know where to turn. So I turned to my favorite author of erotic literature (though not erotica per se) Ms. Jacqueline Carey.
She was the one who found this article and linked it on her facebook page, I am repeating it here so that you may hopefully repeat it to your masses and we can spread this throughout the web.
A petition to stop Internet Censorship.
To quote the Petition:
PayPal has a long track record of suspending, freezing, and terminating customer accounts on the thinnest of justifications, but this is going too far. By telling Bookstrand what books they can and cannot sell using PayPal services, they are also telling readers they don't have the right to read what they wish and telling authors that PayPal has the right to take away their freedom of speech and the press. If you use the Internet to find new reading material, if you use PayPal, and/or if you support the rights of authors and readers to have the widest possible selection of topics to read and write about, please sign this petition and let PayPal know that censorship, no matter what form it takes or how it is implemented, is not acceptable. Readers, publishers, storefronts and authors have the right to choose what books are sold and bought. Don't leave it up to PayPal to choose how you spend your money or where.
She was the one who found this article and linked it on her facebook page, I am repeating it here so that you may hopefully repeat it to your masses and we can spread this throughout the web.
A petition to stop Internet Censorship.
To quote the Petition:
PayPal has a long track record of suspending, freezing, and terminating customer accounts on the thinnest of justifications, but this is going too far. By telling Bookstrand what books they can and cannot sell using PayPal services, they are also telling readers they don't have the right to read what they wish and telling authors that PayPal has the right to take away their freedom of speech and the press. If you use the Internet to find new reading material, if you use PayPal, and/or if you support the rights of authors and readers to have the widest possible selection of topics to read and write about, please sign this petition and let PayPal know that censorship, no matter what form it takes or how it is implemented, is not acceptable. Readers, publishers, storefronts and authors have the right to choose what books are sold and bought. Don't leave it up to PayPal to choose how you spend your money or where.
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