[ValerieUSA]

Why not have lawsuits that hold peddlers of smut partially responsible for the crimes committed in the production of the smut?
You advocate going after authors and publishers and buyers of pedophilia propaganda - but not the distributors? The profiteering middle man is exempt from all responsibility if his stated goal is to profit from sales of ALL books? I should think such an unethical goal deserves backlash.

[mhking]

You advocate going after authors and publishers and buyers of pedophilia propaganda - but not the distributors?

The difference, in my mind, is promotion. The author and publisher are promoting the book. They are actively advertising the book. They are actively seeking people to purchase said book. In that regard, Amazon is no more complicit than the postal service. They are merely the conduit, the messenger, not the originators of the message.