You don't understand how this all works, apparently. Amazon is, for all intents and purposes, a machine. It takes inputs, does algorithmic work, and produces o

You don't understand how this all works, apparently. Amazon is, for all intents and purposes, a machine. It takes inputs, does algorithmic work, and produces output (a marketplace). Some of the inputs, such as this case, are other machines. Yes, next you'll argue that I'm wrong and that Amazon is run by people. Sure. Most of their workforce is in the warehouses, and that's gradually being reduced by machine labor. There's a small percent of people that do programming, make broad business decisions, and collect profits. The human attention pool for policing every input and output of the machine is cosmologically small. What's their other major businesses? EC2, S3, etc. Someone sets of an EC2 micro instance VPN for tor to use Silk Road or illegal porn. Amazon is at fault? Suppose I publish a book wih a hypothesis that the Nazi killing of 6 million Jews helped the gene pool of Europe and resulted in over 60 years of peace. Does Amazon get to remove that because its illegal in Germany but legal in the US? Just because something is offensive to you, it's not to others. I actually found some irony in the rape tshirt. I might wear it once as a gag to a party with close friends that get the joke, but that would be it. Others would wear it as a "fuck the world" statement. Others actually like rape fantasies. Summary: Amazon is a colossal machine. It is unfair and impractical to censor the machine marketplace. Keep your opinions to yourself, because what you find offensive is funny to others.