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Originally Posted by dmikov
Well for people who already invested in the Kindle it is effectively censorship.
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*sigh*
No, it isn't. There are numerous other places you can self-publish in a Kindle-compatible format, especially if you are willing to remove DRM. And nothing stops a Kindle owner from buying content from another vendor.
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Originally Posted by dmikov
It's like saying there was no censorship in Soviet Russia, because author could publish his work in some other country.
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Yes, I can see how facing jail time for comments written in private letters, in a totalitarian state that made emigration nearly impossible, is similar to an author getting kicked off of a hardware platform. Which, of course, he can still sell to under numerous circumstances.
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Originally Posted by dmikov
And your talk about how it is legal doesn't really change anything by the way, in some countries censorship is legal, but still called censorship.
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That does not change the fact that this is not, in any way shape or form, "censorship" in any meaningful sense of the term.
There is nothing "official" about Amazon; there is plenty of competition; there are numerous options available to the author and the audience.
Freedom of speech does not in any way, shape or form guarantee that an individual will be granted the ability to force a commercial entity or an individual to publish and/or distribute a specific author's work. You, as with so many others, are utterly fail to distinguish between "editing" with "censorship."