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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Amazon has the right to sell or not sell anything it likes--but it's sleazy, and possibly fraud, to penalize people for not following instructions they weren't given.
Nothing in Amazon's content guidelines indicates that titles, or titles of some genres, can't contain the word "rape." A quick search turns up several other books with rape in the title, including "The High School Rape Club."
Amazon doesn't have an obligation to carry any particular content, but it does have an obligation to tell its clients what the business rules are, and to apply those rules to all its clients, not selectively by criteria they refuse to define.
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It's sleazy to NOT sell a book on gay rape?
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What's the US law on selling? If you own a restaurant and don't want to serve blacks or gays, that's illegal. What if as a restaurant you don't want to buy your food supplies from blacks or gays? Is that legal? Also, the US gov is a customer of Amazon, so in a since they are giving my money to a group that is uneasy around gays.
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Does a doctor who does business with the government have to have gay magazines in the waiting room? I don't think you can force companies to buy anything they don't want to. You can't force them to sell something they don't want to either. So, a beauty salon can't turn away a man, but doesn't have to sell certain hair products for men. Service, yes, as long as the person turned away is of a protected category. Sexual orientation is not a federal protected class.
Far more than a bookstore not selling a particular book, I'm disturbed by the idea that people want to use the government to force businesses to sell entertainment they don't want to.