Um… I would be more sympathetic if this wasnt a Nazi book. Fuck this book, fuck the author of this article. Fuck Amazon, but not for this.
Mindless-Baker-7757 on
I always want to know how that happened. Who is the actual Amazon employee that did that and why? Was it really just automated? If so how did that book end up being delisted by the software. Are people outside Amazon gaming the system?
What exactly happened?
ArochaPatria on
Delete Amazon today.
Temp89 on
Kinda tanked their whole article by implying Amazon are biased against the right-wing.
JapioF on
It’s indeed weird that this specific book was banned while Mein Kampf is stil available, but after the first two paragraphs, the article spirals toward conspiracy theories, because ‘this never seems to happen to left-wing books’.
MaleficentMeaning594 on
Are we doing the tolerance paradox thing again? Is every bookstore required to sell every book ever published?
Barbarake on
I didn’t bother finishing the article.
The book was “Camp of the Saints”, a controversial book, written by French philosopher Jean Raspail in the 1970s. It portrays a dystopian future in which the West and its institutions collapse under the weight of mass migration.
“After a massive outcry”, Amazon has since restored the book and claims the original ban was a mistake.
But the reason I didn’t finish the article was the author’s statement..
*”But the content of the book here is irrelevant. What the issue highlighted was not that Amazon and other major companies are biased against right-wing views (although such “accidental” removals never seem to happen to left-wing books).”*
How any person can seriously claim that ‘major companies are biased against right-wing views’ when the right wing is so vocally in favor of book banning sort of beggars belief.
Za_Lords_Guard_01 on
I’m no fan of Amazon, and it should be broken up for oh so many reasons, but not for this.
Businesses should get to choose what books they will and will not sell, for whatever reason.
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Um… I would be more sympathetic if this wasnt a Nazi book. Fuck this book, fuck the author of this article. Fuck Amazon, but not for this.
I always want to know how that happened. Who is the actual Amazon employee that did that and why? Was it really just automated? If so how did that book end up being delisted by the software. Are people outside Amazon gaming the system?
What exactly happened?
Delete Amazon today.
Kinda tanked their whole article by implying Amazon are biased against the right-wing.
It’s indeed weird that this specific book was banned while Mein Kampf is stil available, but after the first two paragraphs, the article spirals toward conspiracy theories, because ‘this never seems to happen to left-wing books’.
Are we doing the tolerance paradox thing again? Is every bookstore required to sell every book ever published?
I didn’t bother finishing the article.
The book was “Camp of the Saints”, a controversial book, written by French philosopher Jean Raspail in the 1970s. It portrays a dystopian future in which the West and its institutions collapse under the weight of mass migration.
“After a massive outcry”, Amazon has since restored the book and claims the original ban was a mistake.
But the reason I didn’t finish the article was the author’s statement..
*”But the content of the book here is irrelevant. What the issue highlighted was not that Amazon and other major companies are biased against right-wing views (although such “accidental” removals never seem to happen to left-wing books).”*
How any person can seriously claim that ‘major companies are biased against right-wing views’ when the right wing is so vocally in favor of book banning sort of beggars belief.
I’m no fan of Amazon, and it should be broken up for oh so many reasons, but not for this.
Businesses should get to choose what books they will and will not sell, for whatever reason.