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In Amazon’s Bookstore, No Second Chances for the Third Reich
NYT ^ | 02 09 2020 | David Streitfeld

Posted on 02/10/2020 2:59:26 PM PST by yesthatjallen

Amazon is quietly canceling its Nazis.

Over the past 18 months, the retailer has removed two books by David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, as well as several titles by George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party. Amazon has also prohibited volumes like “The Ruling Elite: The Zionist Seizure of World Power” and “A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind.”

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“Amazon reserves the right to determine whether content provides an acceptable experience,” said one recent removal notice that the company sent to a bookseller.

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“Amazon wants its customers to trust Amazon,” he said. “The place that sells books doesn’t want much critical thinking.”

In 1998, when Amazon was an ambitious start-up, its founder, Jeff Bezos, said, “We want to make every book available — the good, the bad and the ugly.” Customers reviews, he said, would “let truth loose.”

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“Amazon believes it is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable,” it said at the time.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amazon; bezos; censorship
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1 posted on 02/10/2020 2:59:26 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Amazon is BECOMING the NAZIs.


2 posted on 02/10/2020 3:02:17 PM PST by madison10
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To: yesthatjallen

Do They have any books by Robert Byrd Klansman for the Democrat party?


3 posted on 02/10/2020 3:03:34 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: yesthatjallen

History that is objectionable is history you want to avoid in the future. To avoid it, people need to know about it and understand it. . . or we are doomed to repeat it.

Foolish. . . .


4 posted on 02/10/2020 3:03:35 PM PST by RatRipper
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To: yesthatjallen

Banning of books you hate to stop Nazism. Yeah, that totally makes sense. Like F-ing for virginity


5 posted on 02/10/2020 3:03:55 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: yesthatjallen

The answer to bad ideas, is your good ideas. The answer to speech you disagree with, is more speech.


6 posted on 02/10/2020 3:04:46 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: yesthatjallen

Fahrenheit 451 was NOT a book of fiction.


7 posted on 02/10/2020 3:07:00 PM PST by abb
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To: DesertRhino

Ask them when they will ban the books promoting communism.


8 posted on 02/10/2020 3:08:21 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Amazon is a business, not the government/library. If I owned a bookstore I wouldn’t stock NAZI trash either.


9 posted on 02/10/2020 3:09:26 PM PST by StolarStorm
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To: a fool in paradise

Did someone just say the Bible is next


10 posted on 02/10/2020 3:10:31 PM PST by shadeaud (Stand up and be proud that you are Americans regards of color)
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“Beautiful speech doesn’t need protection, it’s ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don’t have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.” - Jeff Bezos


11 posted on 02/10/2020 3:12:21 PM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: yesthatjallen
abebooks.com has both titles, but they aren't cheap.

Interestingly, abebooks is a subsidiary of Amazon.


12 posted on 02/10/2020 3:14:07 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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“abebooks is a subsidiary of Amazon.”

aren’t we all?


13 posted on 02/10/2020 3:14:54 PM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: yesthatjallen

First thing the Nazis did was get rid of books. They didn’t like. Second thing was the guns.


14 posted on 02/10/2020 3:16:33 PM PST by CottonBall (This space for rent.)
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To: DesertRhino

Maybe they could burn the offensive books


15 posted on 02/10/2020 3:17:20 PM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: StolarStorm

The problem is that Amazon was created with the promise of no censorship, and now they have gone deep into censorship.

First they came for the Nazis, and I wasn’t a Nazi...

You know how that ends, right?


16 posted on 02/10/2020 3:22:57 PM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: CottonBall

And then the people they didn’t like.


17 posted on 02/10/2020 3:24:48 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: DesertRhino

Amazon is a Digital Age book burner.


18 posted on 02/10/2020 3:26:44 PM PST by lodi90
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To: yesthatjallen

Really? Some of you so-called conservatives are complaining about a business determining what books it will sell?

That’s not censorship. That’s a business decision.

If I had a book company, I wouldn’t sell ANY Leftist propaganda (Nazis, Leftists - they’re two sides of the same coin).


19 posted on 02/10/2020 3:27:30 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: yesthatjallen; semimojo

And now we’re getting book burning?


20 posted on 02/10/2020 3:29:41 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no oither sovereignty."/)
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