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Old 01-05-2011, 07:47 AM   #405
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Originally Posted by otto117 View Post
By removing titles that it finds offensive for any reason, Amazon is certainly not censoring. What it is doing, unwittingly, is contributing to a push by a very vocal "moral minority" to purge from the mainstream certain ideas expressed in text form. Because writers actually want to sell their books, writers will likely self-censor going forward in order to stay in the marketplace. More insidiously, the removal of the texts by Amazon helps set the stage for criminal obscenity charges to be filed in the most conservative jurisdictions in the United States (provided the book is still available in printed form).
This together with Apple not allowing certain content in applications leading to newspapers that choose to use applications not being able to handle certain topics i a very worrying trend.
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