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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
I am confused. Wasn't there a HUGE uproar when Amazon refused to take down the pedifile book? On this very forum? And now we are upset that Amazon is (gasp) censoring the books they are presenting for sale? Rape is against the law, as is pedifilia.
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These aren't instruction manuals for rape; they're fiction books depicting rapes. If the logic is "we can't have books that have graphic depictions of crimes," they'd have to ban a lot of murder mysteries and thrillers.
However, in this case, it appears the contents were irrelevant; they were removed for having titles that *violated Amazon's content terms.* Except that those terms weren't conveyed to the author; they were the secret content terms that "any decent person should understand," rather than the ones actually written on the page.
The author didn't submit the books attempting to get around Amazon's content requirements; Amazon failed to specify what wasn't allowed. It's unclear whether this was always not-allowed and they just noticed these titles, or they've recently changed their standards, since there still isn't an available list of "things you may not title your book."