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Re:Dreamwidth Banned by PayPal in 2008 for Refusing to Censo... by Danihan on Friday August 25, 2017 @01:07PM (#15100199)
Isn't sexual identity / orientation protected as well? These companies are banning clients for simply talking about sex.

That seems like a grey area but it's treading pretty close to discrimination in my mind.

Then again, should Google be forced to put adsense ads on a porn site? Really murky territory.

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Re:Dreamwidth Banned by PayPal in 2008 for Refusing to Censo... by sparky_z on Friday August 25, 2017 @01:15PM (#15100287)
> Isn't sexual identity / orientation protected as well?

Nope. As I understand it, sexual orientation is not officially a protected class[0]. Seems like it should be, but it isn't.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class

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Re:Dreamwidth Banned by PayPal in 2008 for Refusing to Censo... by dragonwriter on Friday August 25, 2017 @01:41PM (#15100537)
> Isn't sexual identity / orientation protected as well?

It is not protected under federal public accommodation law like race is.

Gender identity and sexual orientation are each protected under minority of state laws (overlapping but not identical minorities, IIRC.)

> That seems like a grey area but it's treading pretty close to discrimination in my mind.

It's absolutely discrimination. The question is whether it is or should be illegal discrimination.

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