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Financially, it was an incredibly stupid move on the part of Amazon to allow this book to be purchased for as long as they did. It is less than 2 months before the biggest shopping season of the year. Honestly, in what alternate reality did they think this would be the right book to use as a platform for being against censorship? Really, really idiotic. And then they caved anyway (for which I am profoundly grateful) after all that postulating about the right to purchase and censorship. Meanwhile, their TOS says (despite their apparent zealous belief in your "right to purchase") that they have the right to decide what you can and cannot purchase at their website.
As for free speech, censorship and what-have-you, as far as I'm concerned, you gotta draw the line somewhere. I don't care what slippery slope it takes us down, quite frankly. The big fat line that should not be crossed is some sexual deviant publishing a book explaining the best ways to sexually and emotionally assault the innocent. So no, I don't support the author's right to publish this book, and I don't support Amazon's right to sell it, even though they both technically have the "right" to do so.
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