For those of you that take donations via Paypal, you might want to know that they are starting to censor bloggers. They recently sent Daily Pundit a threatening letter regarding their web content.

This site being 100% funded by the Staff Writers, is not subject to Paypal's terms and conditions. That means we maintain the editorial freedom to "promote hate, violence, or racial intolerance" for your reading pleasure.

Then again, the next time I use my paypal account to buy something they don't want me to, I may be subject to a $500 fine.

On August 23, PayPal gave users via e-mail 30 days' notice that it could levy a fine of $500 on those who violate its acceptable use policies. Its compliance team will strictly enforce the new acceptable use policy to implement the monetary fines on both buyers and sellers who use the transaction service to trade in items the San Jose, Calif.-based company has outlawed.

Those policies prohibit a wide variety of things, from stuffed migratory birds to used airbags. But the user agreement revision singles out those who, despite the transaction platform's best efforts, persist in using it to pay for forbidden goods and services in the mature audiences, prescription drugs and gambling categories.

Now there's a business plan that screams profitablity. Could you imagine if your credit card company fined you $500 after a night out at a strip club? Personally, I think enforcing their new "terms and conditions" may be their downfall. And in today's litigious society, I cannot wait until they fine themselves into a lawsuit.

Remember the car rental company that decided to start fining renters for speeding. The government doesn't take kindly to private companies trying to horn in on their racket.