PayPal Limits the Sale of e-Books Containing Images of Rape, Bestiality, Incest, & Child Porn

Last month, PayPal sent emails to at least three e-book publishers and booksellers warning them that their accounts would be “limited” unless they removed titles that contained “themes of rape, incest, bestiality and underage subjects,” Reuters reported last week.

As the complaints grew louder, PayPal spokesman Anuj Nayar decided to explain in a blog post that the company actually allows its service to be used for the sale of “erotic” books but that it draws the line “on certain adult content that is extreme or potentially illegal.”

“An important factor in our decision not to allow our payments service to be used to purchase material focused on rape, incest or bestiality is that this category of eBooks often includes images [emphasis added],” Nayar explained.

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