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Saying that censorship is exclusive to government action is like ignoring tha the are like a fourth "pillar" in a democracy...
People ignoring the fact that corporations have the power to literally censor something from parts of public consciousness... They are in my opinion stuck in a Cartesian way of thinking of themselves and ignore the fact or are afraid of the fact that change of conduct DOES affect larger entities and mind-sets... This is expressed in the way they believe that only large (that is, governmental) ideas do affect our lives and that only a government does have the power to bring about change which is ironic because after all, governments ARE ideas and only have effect (in a democray) if people ALREADY believe what they are trying to tell them... The real change in habit must come from somewhere else and that is a space that by now also corporations have filled to quite some extent...
To sum up, if Amazon does censor content, they are already paving the way for larger instances of censorship... Trying to separate them is not quite correct...
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