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Amazon Censorship Expands

Posted by samzenpus on from the seven-words-you-can-never-read dept.

Nom du Keyboard writes "Recently word leaked out about Amazon removing titles containing fictional incest. Surprisingly that ban didn't extend to the 10 titles of Science Fiction Grand Master Robert A. Heinlein that incorporate various themes of incest and pedophilia. Now, it seems that the censorship is expanding to m/m gay fiction if it contains the magic word 'rape' in the title. Just how far is this going to be allowed to proceed in relative silence, and who is pushing these sudden decisions on Amazon's part?"

8 of 764 comments (clear)

  1. Amazon makes a good call by Proudrooster · · Score: 1, Funny

    Amazon has made a good call here by protecting its brand and not associating itself with illegal and immoral activities like pedophilia.

  2. THAT explains why I can't access my Amazon account by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Signed,

    Rape Fuckmysister
    Butthole, MS

  3. How about this one? by Haedrian · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Cooking with Rapeseed oil"

  4. Re:Just wait. by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's too bad: If Lot's daughters had had access to the valuable moral contained in the Dead Kennedy's classic Too Drunk to Fuck none of this would have ever happened...

  5. Re:fahrenheit ??? by GofG · · Score: 4, Funny

    actually the combustion temperature of paper is no-where near 451F. It is closer to 840F (source), which is 450C. It was gonna be "Celcius 450" but "Fahrenheit 451" sounds cooler.

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  6. Re:Go Amazon! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    First off, it's their store, and it should be their decision to sell or not sell any particular book.

    Yes, queue all the "but tha 1st emedment!!!!1!11!!!" idiots.

    It'd be great for Amazon to have the balls to publish everything, but they're also well within their rights to censor whatever they want.

    Secondly, if they are indeed pulling titles off people's Kindles like last time, I say: "Go Amazon, and by all means extend the scope of your ban". All the sooner, people will wake up to the fact that they don't really "own" that DRM-ridden content after all.

    Yes, but it's not going to happen for a fringe "gay porn" book.
    We need J.K. Rowling/Scholastic/Bloomsbury to suddenly decide to pull all the Potter books for anyone to actually take notice. (bonus points if they replace it with gay porn)

  7. Re:fahrenheit ??? by pipatron · · Score: 4, Funny

    It was gonna be "Celcius 450" but "Fahrenheit 451" sounds cooler

    I see what you did there.

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  8. Re:Just wait. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "the Bible would be rated NC-17 "

    Thats nothing, during the late 60's there was a show on TV that had the first interracial kiss. It was rated NCC-1701