The problem is not Amazon. The problem is that the "moral minority" -- those who try to impose their strict views on others can wield such power to make businesses believe that pulling such books is in their best interest. This just shows what a sad state freedom of speech is in, a number of complaints can lead Amazon (and others) to pull "offending" items and takes us further along the road to a small but active minority dictating what everybody else gets to see or read.
And it wouldn't really matter if those who want such items to be sanitized are a majority -- the rights of everybody have to be respected.
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