Re:Amazon won't sell books framing LGBTQ+ identities as ment...
by tester34 on Friday March 12, 2021 @07:24AM
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>they shouldn't be able to dictate what they sell on their platform?
There's difference between "this product is not selling, we're stopping it" or any other similar business related reasoning and "randomly" deciding "this book is not right, thus we censor this"
There's nothing wrong with Amazon stopping selling stuff due to business/legal reasons and so on
but if their reasoning is like "people shouldn't read this" or "we don't like this idea", then it's very bad.
It's not trivial problem, but I think it's important.
>Somedays I think we'd all just be better if a solar flare hits and disabled electronics for the next 20 months.
There's difference between "this product is not selling, we're stopping it" or any other similar business related reasoning and "randomly" deciding "this book is not right, thus we censor this"
There's nothing wrong with Amazon stopping selling stuff due to business/legal reasons and so on
but if their reasoning is like "people shouldn't read this" or "we don't like this idea", then it's very bad.
It's not trivial problem, but I think it's important.
>Somedays I think we'd all just be better if a solar flare hits and disabled electronics for the next 20 months.
Maybe web 2.0 was a mistake, huh.