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Hey, I was just trying to point out that child sexual abuse is not something prevalent in the West and not found in the East, but that it is simply less spoken of and less reported (particularly in the past) in Russia and Eastern Europe.
As to Harry Potter, I simply found it ironic that you should mention a book which roused a whole lot of bizarre opposition from mainly religious quarters.
And yes, Amazon, as a private business, is within its right to decline to carry the book (although, because of the Amazon's size (responsible for close to a quarter of US online sales), a court may disagree if censorship case was brought in, on something like "public forum" grounds).
At the same time, Amazon waffled: at first they declined to remove the book, then they succumbed to the pressure to ban from the store.
I would have respected them more if they stood their ground, on principle alone.
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