Square credit card app forbids purchase of "occult materials" in EULA

It sounds to me like that phrase is there specifically to let them out of liability if someone gets busted under one of the many anti-fortunetelling statutes. Running a payment processor can open the door to all sorts of situations where someone could accuse you of profiting from the proceeds of crime. So they take an understandably proactive stance on making sure that there is no possibility that someone could mistake them for a deep-pocket for liability purposes. This way if, someone is caught using Square to charge for remarkably effective curses, the grieving relatives won't be able to sue Square for being party to the transaction.

Well, that's weird. It certainly doesn't seem to be boilerplate, since the first google hit for "credit card occult materials" is this thread right here (which right now has no comments anyway) and the rest are all offering to sell you occult materials using your credit card.

It would be interesting to get to the bottom of this. (I used my ouija board to ask the spirits, and they said BKMEWERARGAOK, which isn't much use.)

I like how a commenter points out this precludes the sale of one's soul via smartphone.

Jamaica forbids the importation of occult materials:

http://www.jacustoms.gov.jm/home_template.php?page=prohibite...

I guess you can't pay your Freemason dues with Square...

*Bonus points if you get the quasi-humor/irony in that sentence.

Basically it's legal speak for anything hidden. you have to remember the literal definition of "occult"

Darn, they won't be able to buy my game Dead By Zombie.