"Amazon Just Banned My Dad’s Therapy Books, Caving to LGBT Activists"

[PickyPicky]

That’s because it’s the only thing standing between ourselves and government persecution and tyranny

Yes, that’s the other odd thing. How proud you are of the Constitution and how afraid you are of the bodies the Constitution founded.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

There’s no law that says a private business has to sell a certain kind of book. I bet there are lots of other books they refuse to sell also.

Amazon is not an arm of the government. And a lot of people I know refuse to even buy books or anything else from them.

People who really want these kinds of books will still be able to find them, just open up a private website/ storefront and offer them there.

 

[whatistrue]

Yes, that’s the other odd thing. How proud you are of the Constitution and how afraid you are of the bodies the Constitution founded.

In my mind at least, the fear is not of the bodies that were established per se, but of what the bodies could be capable of were it not for the limits placed upon them by the Constitution. And there were ample examples for the Founders to point to of what unlimited government was capable of. And anyone who truly believes that “it couldn’t happen in this day and age” isn’t paying attention.

 

[buffalo]

Pres Trump has is advocating “Right to Try” laws concerning choices by terminally ill patients. “Right to try” should also apply to those seeking to rid themselves of SSA.

 

[meltzerboy2]

As I see it, there are at least three issues here and maybe more. One is the issue you raise, that is, censorship. Does a company such as Amazon have the right to censor books because it does not agree with their message? A second issue, which is connected to the first, is the right of private companies to sell and not sell whatever they wish. Conservatives often say that private companies have this right, so why not in this case? A third issue is the sale of items that have potential harm to the welfare of the individual or of society, for example, selling a book that provides specific instructions on how to commit suicide or murder or take over the government. For some, this book, rather than helping them, actually harms people who are gay.

 

[TheLittleLady]

Does a company such as Amazon have the right to censor books because it does not agree with their message?

Imagine you open up Meltzer Book Shoppe down on the corner of 1st and Main Street.

You will be flooded with catalogs and sample books from legit publishing houses, from self-vanity publishers, and from random authors. From those you will select the books you sell.

Later, you open a e-commerce site for your bookshop. Again, more sample books come in the mail.

Do you think that you are required to offer for sale every book that asks to be sold? You are not, and it staggers me that people do not understand this concept.

 

[Bluebright]

That’s sad. Typical of todays society… free speech as long as you say what they want you too say.

 

[JulianN]

So, a site like this one should have to run Planned Parenthood ads? Or bookstores should be required to carry porn?

Don’t we also engage in “free speech as long as you say what they want you too say.”

 

[TheLittleLady]

No, it is how a free society works. The Constitutional Right to Free Speech is about government, not business.

 

[pnewton]

We value our US citizenship almost as much as our heavenly inheritance,

I do not know who “we” is, but I would never even compare the value of the eternal to that of the worldly and the temporal.

 

[pnewton]

Does a company such as Amazon have the right to censor books because it does not agree with their message? A second issue, which is connected to the first, is the right of private companies to sell and not sell whatever they wish. Conservatives often say that private companies have this right, so why not in this case?

I would say to complain about Amazon refusing to sell this book, and then complain because a baker was sued over not baking a cake for a gay wedding is hypocrisy, as is the reverse.

 

[Edmundus1581]

As an interesting aside, my brother founded the online artistic community and art sales site redbubble.com in 2006. By 2011 they had their first public “censorship vs. free speech” controversy, but it wasn’t the first or last time it to would come up within the company.

My brother told me then that of all the problems he’d had with the RedBubble, censorship was the one which caused the most ongoing troubles and diversion of management time.

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Needless to say, whenever someone was offended by content on the site they presented the company as “promoting” the offensive view.

 

[Dr_Meinheimer]

Nope, if you read the terms of use, it clearly says if you see something on Amazon, you have to buy it, but you still get free two-day shipping with Amazon Prime.