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Originally Posted by elcreative
You're wrong, their is a big difference between school library/nation and a shop. Censorship at the school library/nation level consists of an attack on our ability to access anything at all. A shop refusing to sell an item gives the potential customer and originator, options to purchase/sell elsewhere... now if every shop in the country/world chooses not to sell an item then you may have a problem... that is NOT the case here. This is an "alleged" removal of an item by Amazon who have every right to do so... it says so in the T&C that the author agrees to when selling a book on Amazon and applies to paper just as much as eBooks but it doesn't stop the author selling from another outlet or their own website... if it isn't on Amazon then use a search engine to find it...  |
And if a school bans a book, you could easily go to the county library or a book store, yes? So you see, a school is similar to a business.
It does not cease being censorship just because you could find another avenue of access to the media. It may mean that the instance of censorship is not as severe.