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Originally Posted by Catlady View Post
Judgment and context are everything, and if you can't recognize that, I guess you'd be happy with a computer program that would just willy-nilly count certain words and disallow anything over a specified number.
Judgment isn't censorship. Would you argue that a publisher MUST publish anything that comes in over the transom, because not doing so is censorship?
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I agree that judgment and content are important, but also feel that it isn't unreasonable of the author to be provided with the standards the content is going to be judged upon. Selena Kitt is a well established author. She sells many, many books and some of the books in question of hers that have been pulled have been for sale at Amazon for over a year with no explanation other than "they violate our content guidelines - go away."
And yet if you search on the Amazon Store for "Incest Fantasies" you will find over 400 books still remain with around 370 Kindle books.
I'm not going to get into the censorship debate because that word always brings in Constitutional and legal arguments which clearly don't apply here.
However I maintain that Amazon is clearly being unfair to Ms. Kitt in not providing her with an answer and clarification of what is and is not acceptable to them beyond the "Our standards are about what you'd think they should be" wishy-washy language that is in their TOS. Please, I'm sure they have a lawyer or two around the Amazon building who could churn out something better than that -- don't you think?