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I think we are on a very dangerous path if we are giving private institutions vast censorship power they have through their dominant market position. Where will

I think we are on a very dangerous path if we are giving private institutions vast censorship power they have through their dominant market position. Where will the censorship stop? And if this gets more acceptable they will censor mainly for their own purposes and not for the general good.

krapp 8y ago
>Where will the censorship stop? Believe it or not, not everything is a slippery slope to a boot stomping on a human face forever.
ibm5100 8y ago
Not just run of the mill private institutions either, a company that has a monopoly on the distribution of books. This Atlantic article has their market share of all book sales at 65% in 2014. I wonder if that number has risen since then. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/amazon-has-basically-no-competition-among-online-booksellers/371917/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/amazon-...
NeedMoreTea 8y ago
Not really. Order it from a local bookshop, direct from publisher or author. It's still a million miles from the old days when book shops, even the largest could only carry a tiny fraction of what was available. Even then there were fringe shops that sold plenty of conspiracy and alternative views that main publishers, wholesalers and retailers wouldn't touch.
- ibm5100 8y ago
  And when activists launch a boycott on said publisher, small bookstore or author, using the fact that the book is not sold on Amazon as precedent that there is something wrong with the content?