Unsurprising

[supergee]

Amazon censoring again.

Thanx to andrewducker

Comments

[emceeaich]

Did a government order Amazon to remove the title?

If not, please stop using the word "censorship."

[supergee]

You're right. I should have said, "Amazon acting out fantasy of growing to be a government and censoring." Thank you.

[andrewducker]

Odd. My dictionary doesn't make this exclusive to governments at all. It seems pretty clear that anyone who doesn't allow certain content to go through on the grounds that they don't consider it fit for readers is a censor. You might consider that it's fine for Amazon to censor things, because they have no general duty to allow all content through, but it's still censorship.

[emceeaich]

Can you please explain how you get to "fantasy of growing to be a government" from "as a bookseller, I don't want to sell this title"?

[supergee]

They're two separate things. Amazon, which wants to control our reading experience, indicates what sort of things it would protect us from.