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Originally Posted by jhempel24 View Post
In my opinion there are something that need to be censored for our own good. This is one of them. I don't care about the "who gets to decide" etc, it doesn't matter.
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You know. This is the problem.
I have an Uncle who firmly believes the King James Bible is a total perversion of the true word of God and its very existence is a threat to all of our souls.
He frequently goes to every bookstore within driving distance, buys them all up, and takes them home to burn them. People in his Church donate money to the cause.
My problem is not in this book. It is clearly a despicable product and thankfully our system worked as it should and Amazon received a clear message that their Customers would vote with their dollars if Amazon didn't pull the book. That is not censorship. That is a marketplace economy. It worked. Yay!!!
My problem is with where this leads. Next we have people saying that books that were legally purchased should be erased by Amazon from digital libraries. Then we have people saying that sometimes censorship is good and that the only people who fear it are those doing something wrong.
And at these points I will clearly put my foot down and say enough. Nobody has the right to censor what I read. Nobody has the right to censor what I legally own. Nobody has the right to declare sometimes censorship is "for my own good." I make those decisions for myself, thank you very much.
At least not where I live. And if you live in a country where that is not true, I wish it were different from you.