If I own a business then I have the right to decide what I sell... unless you advocate compelling me to sell things I don't want to... or do you wish to decide what I'm allowed to do... censorship is a relevant term and action when government originated... the author is free to sell their books in any other place or even to start their own website to sell from...
Censorship is also crying freedom whilst ignoring dictatorships etc. all round the world... wikileaks credentials, regarding freedom of information, are suspect as long as the US is their primary target... where's similar material from China, Russia, North Korea etc... let's just agree to differ on WLs activities but crying censorship, whenever a business chooses to exercise its democratic freedoms, simply aids those who would introduce compulsions...
As for closing your Amazon account, that is your right but I don't actually hear them shaking with terror in the corner, again their right... and you've chosen the wrong subject material to get on a high horse about.. incest fiction is hardly the moral high ground however you personally feel concerning its content...
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Originally Posted by haiyeekayakee
To me it is censorship. For me a bookshop is but a conduit, a pipe through which information flows. They should have no say in what I want to read, nor should they be able to make any judgements in what I can or cannot read, I do that for myself.
So, legally they appear to be perfectly entitled to decide what content they will hold, it is their store after all.
Morally, they're going down completely the wrong path if they are to hold themselves arbitars of what I can or cannot read. At what point do they decide to stop, where will they eventually draw the lines ? If they are indeed doing this then to me it is the very essence of censorship.
I've already closed down my Amazon account over their handling of Wikileaks, but if this were true I'd have left them anyway.
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