From LifeSite News comes the story about Amazon banning a book on the health hazards of active gay lifestyle.
August 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Amazon banned a 600-page book on the danger of homosexuality for being “offensive” after selling copies for more than three years.
MassResistance, the pro-family activist organization responsible for the creation of The Health Hazards of Homosexuality, wrote that “Amazon has suddenly notified us that it has banned it from being printed or sold on its site. Amazon is also refusing to allow us to print any more copies for our own use and has even blocked us from accessing our account records.”
The book was not printed and published independently, but through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform, which allows users to cheaply publish e-books and paperbacks, while having access to Amazon’s unparalleled marketplace.
According to MassResistance, “In 2017, we worked with the Amazon staff that helped independent publishers … For over three years they unquestionably knew what the book was about and what it contained. They had no problem with its content – until a month ago.”
“On July 17, we were notified that they have determined that the book violates their ‘content guidelines’ and they have thus taken it down completely,” the article explained. “They closed our account and will not allow us to open another account.”
I hope they come out with a new edition and self-publish it.
Maybe we should cancel Amazon as well.
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If everyone in the world were to take one set day off from Amazon I wonder what would happen.
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Seraphim, Jeff Bezos would lose $215,068,493.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/what-amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-makes-every-day-hour-minute-2018-10
It probably was a useful book. Early in the COVID disaster in New York City I read several sad stories about young men dying of the disease, and their male partners being devastated by the loss. This truly is sad; I do not wish early death on anyone. But I wonder if people living with HIV, which is now a chronic condition, are more susceptible. Since it's an immune system disorder, it seems likely.
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