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Amazon Quietly Bans Books Containing Undefined ‘Hate Speech’
The Epoch Times ^ | 3/1/2021 | Petr Svab

Posted on 03/02/2021 10:20:43 AM PST by tbw2

Amazon has adopted a rule against books that contain anything the company labels as “hate speech.” It appears there was no announcement of the new rule. It was only noticed by media after the online retailer recently banned a book that criticizes transgender ideology.

It’s not clear what Amazon means by “hate speech” or even if it used that label to drop that particular book. In general parlance, Americans hold widely diverging views on what constitutes hate speech, a 2017 Cato poll found. Some tech platforms describe it as speech that disparages people based on characteristics such as race, gender, and sexual proclivities. But insider evidence indicates the companies aren’t clear on where to draw the lines, perpetually redraw them, and at least in some instances ignore violations when politically convenient.

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


TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: amazon; amazonbooks; banning; bidenvoters; bookbanning; books; sjw
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To: tbw2
Yeah, that's working out well. Went to buy When Harry became Sally from B&N. It's out of stock & won't ship until 3/21.
41 posted on 03/02/2021 12:00:23 PM PST by Renkluaf
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To: tbw2

Pass this along to any friends who STILL don’t believe that we’re in serious trouble. Read just enough of the Pentagon BS to get the idea. The SCARY stuff is in the COMMENTS FROM THE FORMER MILITARY GUYS AT THE END.
https://oldnfo.org/2021/03/01/this-is-just-chilling/


42 posted on 03/02/2021 12:03:37 PM PST by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES US! IT DETESTS TRUMP!!)
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To: tbw2

Thought police in government!
Thought police in politics!
Thought police in schools!
Thought police in banking!
Thought police in libraries!
Thought police in retail stores!
Thought police in church!
Thought police in high-tech industries!
Thought police in fast food joints!
Thought police in transportation industry!
Thought police in movie & tv entertainment!
Thought police in newspapers!
Thought police in everyone’s personal computers!
Thought police in the doctor’s office!
Thought police in hospitals!!
Thought police in msm!
Thought police in Fox news board room!
Thought police in the vacation industry!
Thought police in housing industry!
Thought police in social media!

It is almost like living in Japan during the 17th, 18th, & 19th centuries... Thought Police controlling every aspect of your life from birth to death...


43 posted on 03/02/2021 12:20:17 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
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To: tbw2

Modern Nazi book burners.


44 posted on 03/02/2021 12:23:13 PM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: tbw2

Pretty soon all books at Amazon will be banned for hate speech, except books on Marxism, Communism, socialism - all that crowd.


45 posted on 03/02/2021 12:26:54 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SkyDancer
:)
46 posted on 03/02/2021 12:54:10 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Dick Bachert

Thank for posting this. Speechless.


47 posted on 03/02/2021 12:58:47 PM PST by CatHerd (Not a newbie - lost my password)
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To: DuncanWaring
She was not German. All non-german ideas were to be purged.
48 posted on 03/02/2021 1:09:35 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (May their path be strewn with Legos, may they step on them with bare feet until they repent. )
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To: tbw2

Why is anyone using Amazon anymore?


49 posted on 03/02/2021 1:37:51 PM PST by bgill (Which came first, Covid-19 or Gates and Fauci's mRNA-1273 Moderna vax?)
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To: tbw2

TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH. Amazon will therefore censor all TRUTH!


50 posted on 03/02/2021 1:54:18 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: DuncanWaring

“Mein Kampf” is still available.

Right wingers never call for the banning of books because we support free speech and left wingers have no issue with that one.


51 posted on 03/02/2021 2:16:49 PM PST by Zack Attack
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I had been given to believe they liked her ideas; even took inspiration from them.


52 posted on 03/02/2021 2:47:44 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: tbw2

53 posted on 03/02/2021 3:02:34 PM PST by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: GraceG

This has got to be another 4chan troll that people fell for

like how the “OK” sign means white power


54 posted on 03/02/2021 3:14:11 PM PST by janetjanet998
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To: DuncanWaring
Oh they liked her thoughts and ideas.

But that was irrelevant next to the fact that she was not German.

It was really screwy over there.

Ideas that were wrong, I mean factually wrong were accepted because a German came up with it and things that were factually right were rejected because a non-German came up with it.

And thank goodness for it or they would have possibly won.

55 posted on 03/02/2021 3:15:46 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (May their path be strewn with Legos, may they step on them with bare feet until they repent. )
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

If they hadn’t run off their Jewish physicists events might have unfolded entirely differently.


56 posted on 03/02/2021 3:22:30 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: tbw2

I am hanging on to every old book I have and am shopping thrift stores for them before we become Fahrenheit 451.


57 posted on 03/02/2021 3:33:56 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom

A major scifi author just came out and said buy print copies of conservative books, because they’re disappearing off Amazon in print and digital forms. And when you have an ebook, they can delete it off your device via DRM.


58 posted on 03/02/2021 7:48:02 PM PST by tbw2
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To: tbw2

I am also doing that with CD’s and DVD’s.

I kept hearing that, oh, it can be streamed, there’s no need for DVDs anymore.

Until the censorship kicks it and the streaming services don’t carry them any more.

If I have a disc, I have a hard copy that I can watch or listen to any time I want.

Same with books.


59 posted on 03/02/2021 7:52:29 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: tbw2

Time to take down some liberal authors.


60 posted on 03/02/2021 7:56:19 PM PST by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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