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Re:Amazon Pulls Books That Promote Unscientific Autism ‘Cures’ by maxxxxx on Thursday March 14, 2019 @02:32PM (#19392019)
In theory yes but if a private institution has a lot of market power like amazon has they can effectively shape the public discourse with their censorship. Which indicates to me that big operations are dangerous for democracy.
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Re:Amazon Pulls Books That Promote Unscientific Autism ‘Cures’ by tanilama on Thursday March 14, 2019 @02:35PM (#19392066)
Then maybe we should cancel big television or news networks.

Nowadays, every one of them are not even pretending they are unbiased, how is that better than take down 2 books selling pseudo science? And do we need a democratic process to decide whether certain treatment is acceptable?

That smells suspiciously close to the anti-vaxxer argument.

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Re:Amazon Pulls Books That Promote Unscientific Autism ‘Cures’ by lovehashbrowns on Thursday March 14, 2019 @02:41PM (#19392139)
Amazon doesn't sell Nazi flags. Is that censorship, and does that keep such flags from public discourse?
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