{"id":10505,"date":"2012-02-27T12:21:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T17:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10505"},"modified":"2012-02-27T12:21:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T17:21:37","slug":"paypal-goes-to-the-dark-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10505","title":{"rendered":"PayPal goes to the dark side."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"PayPal turns EVIL!\" href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/02\/26\/paypal-erotica-smashwords-censorshi\/\" target=\"_self\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/strong> reports on <strong>PayPal&#8217;s<\/strong> outrageous bullying of eBook distributor and publisher <strong>Smashwords<\/strong>. It seems <strong>PayPal <\/strong>is getting into the censorship business.<\/p>\n<p>They have demanded that <strong>Smashwords <\/strong>and other eBook distributors remove all works that contain references to bestiality, rape and incest or suffer the punishment of having all\u00c2\u00a0<strong>PayPal<\/strong> services removed. (Something that Smashwords&#8217; president, Mark Coker says equates to shutting the business down.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Smashwords <\/strong>is complying with this order&#8217;s deadline of <strong>Feb. 28 <\/strong>and I fear will live to regret rolling over on this. Just as <strong>PayPal <\/strong>will <strong>pay <\/strong>for this outrageous overreach into dictatorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechCrunch reports on PayPal&#8217;s outrageous bullying of eBook distributor and publisher Smashwords. It seems PayPal is getting into the censorship business. They have demanded that Smashwords and other eBook distributors remove all works that contain references to bestiality, rape and incest or suffer the punishment of having all\u00c2\u00a0PayPal services removed. (Something that Smashwords&#8217; president, Mark &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10505\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10505"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10513,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505\/revisions\/10513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}