Re:Dreamwidth Banned by PayPal in 2008 for Refusing to Censo...
by cortesoft on Friday August 25, 2017 @01:05PM
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Not completely; they couldn't decide to use 'whiteness of yoru skin' as a metric for decision. I think there should absolutely be limits to what you can use to determine if you do business with someone, but where exactly the line is is not an easy question to answer.
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Re:Dreamwidth Banned by PayPal in 2008 for Refusing to Censo...
by mholt on Friday August 25, 2017 @01:32PM
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IF skin color did correlate to higher fraud rate or expenses for PayPal, then requiring them to service people of all colors equally would be unfair to the company. In this case PayPal is refusing service apparently because processing payments for the adult industry is inherently risky and correlates with higher rates of fraud or illegal activity or chargebacks, etc. Since the same issue doesn't exist for skin color, you can't really draw that as a parallel.