That's weird. I bought a Mein Kampf, Das Capital, Anarchist Cookbook, Tropic of Cancer, and Ulysses recently from Az. Those were banned books. (Insert joke abou

That's weird. I bought a Mein Kampf, Das Capital, Anarchist Cookbook, Tropic of Cancer, and Ulysses recently from Az. Those were banned books. (Insert joke about Fed watch lists.) Is Amazon going to deplatform Ann Coulter or Bill O'Reilly because they don't agree with their ideas? Are they going to pick-and-choose which books are allowed rather than sell what the market wants? How can we deconstruct or debate what you or I think is terrible writing if we can't access or purchase it? The argument that businesses can sell whatever they want falls away when they become monopolies and gate-keep much of everyday life ubiquitously, influence (corrupt) government policy extensively, and can shut people and products out arbitrarily; that's inverted totalitarianism. The common tendency to deny the absurd power of megacorporations to influence attitudes and pick winners and losers is itself absurd. Edit: Regardless of content, I hope such books are available on other platforms and use their banning as a cause celebre to defenestrate commercial censorship. Also, maybe I shouldn't buy products from such a platform in protest if they're going to Big Mother customers. "'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' was [Voltaire's] attitude now." - Evelyn Beatrice Hall