I’ve been a customer of Amazon-dot-com for some years now, and I tend not to think of them as promoters of book censorship. After all, early on I got my copy of ‘The Turner Diaries,’ a once-talked-about badly written white supremacist, antisemitic book about a future race war, from Amazon.
But in more recent times I’ve heard stories of censorship at Amazon. There were stories they were going to start banning or shadow-banning books with ‘keto’ in the title, because the keto world is full of cholesterol-deniers who believe scientific research rather than ‘fats are bad’ bleating.
I also have heard a report that the works by the founder of ‘conversion therapy’ had been pulled from Amazon because the LGBT leadership feel these books conflicted with their dogmas.
But now, Amazon has pulled some e-books by Christian authors I happen to know personally, Declan Finn and Jon Del Arroz. I have read their previous books and named kittens after both men. OK, one kitten is named Declanna and the other is Jon-with-Rice, but still.
Both books were in the pre-ordering stage and both authors have lost the pre-orders they had for the ebook edition. In both cases, the more expensive paper-based versions of the books were still available.
Evidently Amazon is claiming that the authors took the books down for revision (a lie) or that the publisher did something (also a lie.) I wonder if their plan is mainly to persuade certain non-progressive authors that Amazon is not their friend and they should boycott and make it harder for themselves to get their books out with alternatives to Amazon.
The thing about Amazon is that they are out to make money. They probably believe they will make more money by giving in to complaints by the Progressive special-snowflake types, than standing strong against all censorship. But the more they cater to the special-snowflake, safe-space, pro-censorship crowd, the further they will have to go. Someday they may need to start taking down books and movies that earn them good money to prevent an expensive boycott from the Left.
What can YOU do? Buying Declan Finn and Jon Del Arroz’s books are a good start. It is also good, when you hear of a case of this type, to transmit it throughout your social media— tweet, Facebook, MeWe, Gab, whatever you’ve got. Blog about it. Because this kind of progressive sh-t only works when they can keep us in the dark.
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