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Originally Posted by dacattt
one phone rep, at least, has been critical about their choice of reading material.
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Amazon is a big company. They probably employ a lot of people to man the phones. I don't think it's significant that one of those people said a particular thing.
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Originally Posted by haiyeekayakee
For me a bookshop is but a conduit, a pipe through which information flows.
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A bookshop is a business. It's a business through which information flows, but it's still a business, and businesses exist to make money.
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Originally Posted by haiyeekayakee
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.
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They're arbiters of what they will sell, not what you can or cannot read. They make judgements on what to sell, and in that sense, they make a judgement on what they will facilitate you reading. Not selling something you want to read isn't the same as stopping you reading it - they're just stopping you buying it from them.
Equally, you can choose whether or not to buy from them. You've decided not to buy from them, and that's your choice.