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That's okay, I understand that part of your point and completely agree with it. I'm just arguing against the claim that what they do is censorship.
by CodeMage 16y ago
That's okay, I understand that part of your point and completely agree with it. I'm just arguing against the claim that what they do is censorship.
- steveklabnik 16y agoI think what this really boils down to is that we have slightly different views about what the word means, and at what point private individuals become powerful enough for these kinds of things to matter. My (theoretical) mom's corner bookstore can't effectively be a censor. Yeah, it sucks if she doesn't carry a book, and it's still a bad thing that she's doing, but Amazon, doing the same act but at scale, is a totally different story. There's context that makes this important. Littering is a bummer. Oil spills are a disaster. Also, this isn't time #1 where Amazon has come out and done something like this. It's starting to become a growing pattern that I'm becoming increasingly uncomfortable with.