[sun surfer]

Originally Posted by kiwipippa

http://bookiemonster.co.nz/2011/06/b...encing-others/

I think if I was a retailer I would have stocked it and let people make up their own minds. Otherwise it is getting very close to censorship and book banning and we can't go there in 2011.

We have already "gone there" in 2011 with Amazon censoring books.

In most cases a private company should be allowed to choose what to stock or censor. Just as a private citizen should be allowed to censor what they themselves read, a private company should be allowed to censor what they sell.

There is a grey area though that arises when a company is essentially a monopoly, or when a similarly sufficient amount of companies censor the same thing. Then censoring something may have a similar chilling effect as if the government had censored it.