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re: Amazon & eBay Announce They Will Ban Selling Of “Books With Material We Deem Offensive”
Posted on 3/5/21 at 8:45 am to AmosMosesAndTwins
Posted on 3/5/21 at 8:45 am to AmosMosesAndTwins
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The Bible - "Would certainly be a lot less violence in the world."
Want to know how I know you're leftist scum?
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Posted on 3/5/21 at 8:52 am to LuckyTiger
I find interesting the comparison that many on the right are making to Nazi book burnings. Only because the type of books the Nazis burnt are similar to the books that many on the culturally conservative right find harmful to our culture.
For example:
For example:
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The Institut für Sexualwissenschaft was an early private sexology research institute in Germany from 1919 to 1933. The name is variously translated as Institute of Sex Research, Institute of Sexology, Institute for Sexology or Institute for the Science of Sexuality. The Institute was a non-profit foundation situated in Tiergarten, Berlin. It was headed by Magnus Hirschfeld.
Hirschfeld built a unique library on same-sex love and eroticism.
The Nazi book burnings in Berlin included the archives of the Institute. After the Nazis gained control of Germany in the 1930s, the institute and its libraries were destroyed as part of a Nazi government censorship program by youth brigades, who burned its books and documents in the street
Posted on 3/5/21 at 8:59 am to AmosMosesAndTwins
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Would certainly be a lot less violence in the world.
It seems like people say things like this, thinking that it makes them seem intelligent. It doesn't. It makes you sound like an idiot.
Posted on 3/5/21 at 9:02 am to LuckyTiger
Well, tie this to the FBI's confiscation/destruction of those fraudulent Georgia electoral ballots...and the path to our future - if the Left is able to impose it - becomes clear. It no longer is a debatable point of contention; more a matter of whether or when the Right takes off the gloves and goes rogue. Like history confirms.
Strap in.
Strap in.
Posted on 3/5/21 at 9:25 am to Pecker
I think you'll find most on the right are opposed to the censorship and limiting of any books. We've come around on that and this is yet another issue where today's conservative has the views of a 60's liberal while the "left" is now on the opposite side and is pro-cancel culture.
Also, I love the "private business" argument. Yeah, these books aren't being censored, you can still buy them, you just can't find them anywhere. Reminds me of "you still have freedom of speech, you just don't have a platform where anybody is going to hear what you are saying".
Also, I love the "private business" argument. Yeah, these books aren't being censored, you can still buy them, you just can't find them anywhere. Reminds me of "you still have freedom of speech, you just don't have a platform where anybody is going to hear what you are saying".
Posted on 3/5/21 at 9:27 am to LuckyTiger
Books by conservative authors
Posted on 3/6/21 at 6:34 am to AUCom96
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I always enjoy globalists and their "free market" talk. It's as full of crap as the entire concept of "free markets" that they worship.
That's like Bobby Jindal talking about the "private sector" when never worked in the private sector prior to running for office.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 6:38 am to LuckyTiger
This is why I've been collecting history books.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 6:45 am to ksayetiger
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just ordered 1984/animal farm combo from Amazon. thay will be my last amazon order ever.
After reading this I did the same because I'm sure they will be on the chopping block any day now.
It is absolutely unreal seeing people who used to claim to be liberals fully support the modern day book burning. It goes against everything they used to claim they stood for. It makes me suspect they don't really stand for anything, just whatever is convenient at the time
Posted on 3/6/21 at 7:53 am to momentoftruth87
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So you're telling me there is an opportunity with an untapped market share?
Without publishers on board, they are gone forever. And if Amazon can convince them to stop printing, then there isn’t a chance this can just shift to another outlet.
Maybe the estates of these authors will allow grassroots transcription.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 8:30 am to LuckyTiger
So, the company that sells artificial realistic dicks and artificial vaginas and assholes for guys to frick as well as hardcore fisting porn and items of sexual torture is now the determiner of all that is moral and what is offensive?
Hypocrites.
Hypocrites.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 8:32 am to LuckyTiger
Canceled Amazon this morning, and haven't used eBay in a decade.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 8:52 am to LuckyTiger
Has eBay back-tracked? The supposed “offending” books had been removed as of Thursday night, yet I checked this morning and the forbidden 6 Seuss books are once again being listed.
As a collector and sometimes seller of books myself, I hope so. I am a fan of the platform as it allows brick and mortar stores a viable online outlet for selling merchandise.
Yet I was prepared to quit using eBay over this outrage and voiced my concerns over this issue in an IM chat with an eBay representative. This appears to be a win for anyone concerned about the ever tightening restrictions of allowable opinion in the public square.
As a collector and sometimes seller of books myself, I hope so. I am a fan of the platform as it allows brick and mortar stores a viable online outlet for selling merchandise.
Yet I was prepared to quit using eBay over this outrage and voiced my concerns over this issue in an IM chat with an eBay representative. This appears to be a win for anyone concerned about the ever tightening restrictions of allowable opinion in the public square.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 8:58 am to AggieHank86
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Private businesses should not get to choose the products that they will stock and sell?
Is anyone in this thread actually promoting such an idea? If so they are wrong.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 9:04 am to AUCom96
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I always enjoy globalists and their "free market" talk. It's as full of crap as the entire concept of "free markets" that they worship.
The same people defending such “free markets” are those who believe the index of allowable political opinions should run the gamut from Mitt Romney to Chuck Schumer. They actually believe in captured markets not free markets.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 9:18 am to Pecker
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Pecker
STFU.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 9:25 am to LuckyTiger
Three pages in and no link to what the OP is talking about.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 9:31 am to AggieHank86
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Private businesses should not get to choose the products that they will stock and sell? OK, Conrade
They want that right, they shouldn't be allowed to be a monopoly or near-monopoly. Deal?
Posted on 3/6/21 at 9:58 am to AggieHank86
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AggieHank86
Propane hank is still up to the same old bullshite.
Posted on 3/6/21 at 10:03 am to RollTide1987
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Three pages in and no link to what the OP is talking about.
eBay made an attempt to restrict sales of the 6 Dr. Seuss books that Seuss Enterprises had decided to quit publishing because they were deemed to be “offensive” by members of the professional perpetually aggrieved class.
Several book sellers confirmed that they were informed that eBay delisted the books because they violated eBay’s TOS for selling “offensive” merchandise and it indeed appeared those titles were removed from being listed earlier this week.
Thankfully, it now appears that this decision has been reversed and we can hope this was a case of a SJW in upper management getting ahead of official company policy.
Outrage as eBay REMOVES listings for canceled Dr Seuss books 'because they glorify violence'
• Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the company that preserves and protects his legacy, announced early Tuesday that the six books would no longer be published
• Almost immediately after the announcement, the prices of those books surged hundreds of dollars on eBay
• A vintage copy of 'If I Ran the Zoo' was priced at $510 after receiving 54 bids, while a copy of 'Scrambled Eggs Super!' was at $565 after 58 bids
• A copy of 'The Cat's Quizzer', which the seller marketed as brand new, was going for $630 after receiving 48 bids
• On Thursday, eBay started removing those listings claiming it violated policies
• The move to cease publication of the books drew immediate reaction on social media from those who called it another example of 'cancel culture.'
Outraged Americans are demanding to know why eBay has banned them from reselling the six 'offensive' Dr Seuss books that are being canceled when copies of Hitler's Mein Kampf and Louis Farrakhan - whose anti-Semitic remarks are well known - are still available.
Ebay on Thursday started removing listings for the six Dr Seuss books that are no longer going to be produced. They emailed people who had listed the books, saying that the post violated their 'offensive materials policy'.
The company has not released any kind of statement about it, nor have they responded to inquiries.....
This post was edited on 3/6/21 at 10:18 am
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