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Amazon Taking Down Erotica, Removing From Kindles
ctmurray writes "The independent writers who publish on Amazon report that erotica books containing incest are being taken down with no explanation by Amazon, and removed from the Kindles of purchasers of the books. Author Selena Kitt writes: 'I want to be clear that while the subject of incest may not appeal to some, there is no underage contact in any of my work, and I make that either explicitly clear in all my stories or I state it up front in the book's disclaimer. I don't condone or support actual incest, just as someone who writes mysteries about serial killers wouldn't condone killing. What I write is fiction.' Kindle's own TV ad features a book with a story line of sex between a 19-year-old and his stepmother, defined in some states as incest (Sleepwalking by Amy Bloom)."
I hope they also remove Romeo and Juliet, since they had sex while Juliet was 14, a clear case of kiddie porn.
Except it is so sad, there's nothing to laugh about.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Not until this kind of crap stops being possible. I don't just mean "Amazon stops pulling Kindle books that people have already purchased and promises not to do it again," I mean when they can't -- i.e. when e-books can actually be purchased, in a non-DRM, non-phone-home format that the people who buy them actually own.
Yes, I know there are people selling plain PDFs, and good for them. But Amazon is such a dominant force in the market that they're going to have to take the lead, or be replaced at the top spot. I'm not optimistic -- this is going to drag on for years, maybe decades, and the potential of the e-book market will go largely unfulfilled in the meantime.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
this is why DRM is bad. Other parties control what you can or can't do with your property. Even if this was child porn - Amazon shouldn't be able to remove a damn thing from anyone's kindle.
This is why I'll never buy anything with Digital Restriction Management in it... Give me something that I control, then we'll talk...
Well, and keep this hush hush its new tech, there's these things called books, they are an analogue hard-copy format, the best part of them is, there is no link up to the cloud and no company has the rights to remotely disable your copy.
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No it was a double plus ungood.
I sure hope they removed The Holy Bible, too. Lot has sex with both of his daughters, it's right there in Genesis. And Lot's even the hero of the story, the one righteous man allowed to escape Sodom. It would be a real shame if they applied a double standard.
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
Hell, if incest is bad... what about murder?
I think they should take down all books with murder, violence, incest, fraud, drug offenses, adultery, etc.
In fact, why sell fiction books? It's all blasphemy anyway. We should devote our lives to studying the state-propaganda. If that's good enough for the state, it is good enough for us.
My god man, can you imagine what a Constitution written in this politically-correct, image-driven, vagina-babble, lawyer-laden, market-speak, victim-mentality, feel-good, safety-at-all-costs, focus-on-the-nonessential, yada-yada-yada day and age would look like? Shit, the preamble would run 200 pages, and wouldn't say a damn thing.
That said, I still say we kill all the lawyers and MBAs.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
That's when Amazon takes it upon themselves to update books on your Kindle, without your knowledge.
They'll probably sell it as a feature, first. Science text books for college, for example. Every year, we'll upgrade your copy to the latest version, etc...
But one day, it will be "Those historical facts no longer represent the current thinking of the administration. So remove those historical facts from this text book, and replace them with these approved-facts."
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I'm assuming they aren't refusing to sell the dead tree versions of these same books.
Why a netbook or tablet? There are a lot of eInk readers that support formats without DRM. Off the top of my head, there is the iRex iLiad (which I have), the HanLin eReader, the Sony readers, several Netronix models, the Entourage Edge... here in Spain we even have local brands like the Grammata Papyre.
It's sad that so many Americans seem to think that there's no eInk life outside of the Kindle... when the Kindle is the most closed and DRM-laden option, and there are quite a bunch of open alternatives. Really sad.
Don't overlook chapters 4 and 5. Remember, according to those who take the Bible as factual history flat out believe that Adam and Eve were the first two Humans, period. What they don't like to think about is that means that in order to populate the earth, they and their offspring had to engage in a rather lengthy incestuous fuckfest with their siblings (and possibly their parents).
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Not to worry. While they may be removing anything that hints at fucking your siblings, in the prcess, they're assuring they can still fuck you.
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Considering that even most Nazis found Mein Kampf to be not exactly a joy to read, I think Amazon's assumption that it won't be turning anyone on is a reasonable one. After all, as we all know, sex is a special kind of evil - the Supreme Court has ruled that First Amendment doesn't cover "obscene" material - while calling for genocide is fine and dandy.
Aren't Puritans nice people?
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
Stop blaming the victim. It's Amazon's fault if a book goes away. Your attitude is the exact same one that allows this kind of shit to go on.
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