PayPal, Apple lecture NC, but doing business in countries far more hostile to gays – IOTW Report

PayPal, Apple lecture NC, but doing business in countries far more hostile to gays

Washington Times: PayPal drew a line in the sand when North Carolina enacted a law prohibiting people from using the restrooms of the opposite sex, but critics say that line got washed away on the shores of Malaysia, a nation that consistently ranks among the least LGBT-friendly in the world.

The company canceled its plan to build a global operations center in Charlotte after the passage of HB2, which CEO Daniel Schulman called discrimination against the transgendered. He noted that the move would cost North Carolina 400 well-paying jobs.

But Malaysia’s Penal Code 187 — which punishes homosexual conduct with whippings and up to 20 years in prison — did not stop PayPal from opening in 2011 a global operations center there that it estimated would employ 500 workers by 2013.  MORE

5 Comments on PayPal, Apple lecture NC, but doing business in countries far more hostile to gays

  1. PayPal saved NC $2.1 million bucks! That is what the state offered them in incentives to build here. The real truth is that the State they decided with offered them much more (4 million I think). Also I heard on the radio that there is a high number of PayPal customers canceling their PayPal accounts because PayPal wants men showering with little girls.

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