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Biden administration pressured Amazon to censure books that questioned COVID vaccines
The Washington Times ^ | February 5, 2024 | Susan Ferrechio

Posted on 02/05/2024 5:32:36 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain

Senior Biden administration aides summoned Amazon officials to the White House during the height of the pandemic to discuss “propaganda and misinformation” in books for sale on the retail giant’s website that questioned the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.

White House officials “spent a week berating Amazon” in March 2021 over books related to “vaccine misinformation” and asked what steps company officials could take “to reduce the visibility of these titles,” according to Amazon emails released Monday by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican.

The Amazon pressure campaign overseen by Andy Slavitt, who was Mr. Biden’s senior adviser on the administration’s COVID-19 task force, appears to have been successful.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


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"It's not censorship when WE do it."
1 posted on 02/05/2024 5:32:36 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Nobel-Prize-worthy.


2 posted on 02/05/2024 5:37:34 PM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

At the time, you could have pointed to numerous Freepers who would have been in agreement with the Biden administration. Truly maddening.


3 posted on 02/05/2024 5:39:31 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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At the time, you could have pointed to numerous Freepers who would have been in agreement with the Biden administration

Yes. Now that you mention it, some may have even been working with the Biden administration.

4 posted on 02/05/2024 5:42:38 PM PST by DSH
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Of course.

It’s what all totalitarian dictatorships do.


5 posted on 02/05/2024 5:43:48 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Tyranny has no limits...
Absolute control is the goal of the American Communist Party...

Its stranglehold on the country continues to go unchallenged...


6 posted on 02/05/2024 5:44:11 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

If you don’t know the difference between censure and censor, you shouldn’t be writing headlines.


7 posted on 02/05/2024 5:46:39 PM PST by proxy_user (W)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

COVID-19(84) was an excellent dry run for the Mark of the Beast


8 posted on 02/05/2024 5:48:46 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: proxy_user

I caught that too. Should have put a (sic) in there.


9 posted on 02/05/2024 5:52:10 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (Dear Claire Wolfe: Is it still "too early"?)
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Fascism, what does that mean? Brandon the brain dead; could he really do this? Think again....
10 posted on 02/05/2024 6:00:48 PM PST by Fungi
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If you don’t know the difference between censure and censor, you shouldn’t be writing headlines.

That appears to be the headline direct from the Washington Times FWIW. I'm sure they are all graduates of the kolumbia skool of jernalism, germalisn writing....

11 posted on 02/05/2024 6:21:56 PM PST by pfflier
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To: pfflier; proxy_user

I did indeed copy and paste the headline “as is”.


12 posted on 02/05/2024 6:30:15 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (Dear Claire Wolfe: Is it still "too early"?)
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To: CatOwner

What happened to most of them? Never see them around anymore, lol.


13 posted on 02/05/2024 6:35:30 PM PST by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: proxy_user
His headline doesn't make cents scents.
14 posted on 02/05/2024 7:35:51 PM PST by BipolarBob (Pray for Mother Russia.)
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To: CatOwner

...and probably paid handsomely by “friendly” foreign intelligence services.


15 posted on 02/05/2024 8:33:19 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: Prince of Space

Paychecks being now smaller and less frequent, most have probably moved on to more lucrative narrative-peddling contracts.


16 posted on 02/05/2024 8:34:48 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: BipolarBob

C what u did dere!


17 posted on 02/05/2024 8:36:02 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: Jyotishi

Leavitt should be indicted for abuse of powers and First Amendment rights violations. Also with restraint of trade across state lines.

Twenty to life would be appropriates sentences, to be served consecutively. No parole.

Subversion of the Constitution runs deep in Biden’s’ criminal enterprise. Our Uncle Joe is the American equivalent of the Soviet’s Uncle Joe, sans moustache but with the same evil intentions.


18 posted on 02/05/2024 9:57:54 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures a)
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Animal Farm or 1984.


19 posted on 02/05/2024 11:28:16 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: Ciaphas Cain; All

Animal Farm or 1984 or Fahreheit 454


20 posted on 02/05/2024 11:28:45 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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