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It is definitely censorship. They are making a moral decision about what content they will allow to be sold through their system. If you own movie theaters and
by ameister14 8y ago
It is definitely censorship. They are making a moral decision about what content they will allow to be sold through their system. If you own movie theaters and decide not to show films linked to Communists, you are censoring.
Wal Mart censors people too - if you don't comply with their morals, you can't promote yourself in their stores.
- SketchySeaBeast 8y agoWhile it is the definition of censorship, does that mean it has the negative connotation of the term? I don't see Wal Mart selling any pornography either, and I can't remember the last time I saw a Bollywood film or a 2 man student art film in my local movie theater - are those censorship's negative?
- ameister14 8y agoThe Bollywood/2 man student films aren't censorship - they're a lack of perceived audience. If there was an audience for those, the theaters would show them. The pornography thing - maybe? There's an argument to be made that allowing freedom of choice would be a net positive.
- Mikhail_Edoshin 8y agoDefinitions are useless, what one needs is a notion: a smallest working model of censorship. If a store doesn't have a particular book, it can be to a multitude of reasons. But what if one removes an existing book from a library? The book is not physically different from others, nor does it carry some unusual associated costs, it could be standing happily there for many more years. So why it's singled out? Because of what it contains? This is where we call it censorship. (Note that what exactly it contains is irrelevant.) In this case the book as a product is not different from a trillion of other Amazon products. What makes it different is its content. So yes, this is censorship.