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Originally Posted by sun surfer
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 though 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.
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This.
It's one thing if a small retailer doesn't carry something; it's a little different (for me) when Amazon doesn't, just because they're so huge. But I realize this is a subjective line for people.
