# Legal Censorship: PayPal Makes a Habit of Deciding What Users Can Read | Electronic Frontier Foundation

<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/legal-censorship-paypal-makes-habit-deciding-what-users-can-read>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

PayPal has instituted a new policy aimed at censoring what digital denizens can and can’t read, and they’re doing it in a way that leaves us with little recourse to challenge their policies in court. Indie publisher Smashwords has notified contributing authors, publishers, and literary agents that

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