{"id":169324,"date":"2021-02-24T17:49:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T22:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=169324"},"modified":"2021-02-24T17:58:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T22:58:50","slug":"senators-push-for-answers-on-amazon-book-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senators-push-for-answers-on-amazon-book-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators Push For Answers on Amazon Book Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenators-push-for-answers-on-amazon-book-ban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=169324&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Amazon-1-e1614024644690.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Four U.S. senators asked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for an explanation after his company<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/amazon-pulls-bestseller-on-transgender-issues-from-store-without-explanation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">removed<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the book<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by conservative scholar, Ryan T. Anderson, from all Amazon platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the letter,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sens. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), Mike Lee (R., Utah), Mike Braun (R., Ind.), and Josh Hawley (R., Mo.)<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">say that &#8220;Amazon has been unable to provide a sufficient explanation as to how Anderson\u2019s book, which reached the top of two of Amazon&#8217;s best-seller lists before it was even released in 2018, supposedly violated a vague, undefined \u2018offensive content\u2019 standard.&#8221; They also note that &#8220;by removing this book from its marketplaces and services, Amazon has unabashedly wielded its outsized market share to silence an important voice merely for the crime of violating woke groupthink.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Latest News<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0\">\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/senators-push-for-answers-on-amazon-book-ban\/\"><strong>Senators Push For Answers on Amazon Book Ban<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/congressional-republicans-introduce-national-right-to-work-bill\/\"><strong>Congressional Republicans Introduce National Right-to-Work Bill<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/biden-admin-drops-support-for-female-high-school-students-suing-over-transgender-athletes\/\"><strong>Biden Admin Drops Support for Female High School Students Suing Over Transgender Athletes<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The sudden removal of Anderson\u2019s book has caused a political firestorm. Amazon\u2019s policies stated all book removals would be communicated to the author and publisher, but both Anderson and his publisher Encounter Books have stated Amazon has yet to contact them and<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/amazon-created-new-hate-speech-policy-before-banning-bestselling-book-on-transgenderism\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">refuses to respond<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to questions for clarification.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The letter from the senators asks Amazon to provide documentation regarding its new content policy, and whether the company considered banning the book upon its initial release in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The senators asked Bezos to respond no later than March 9, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anderson<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanTAnd\/status\/1364314238853001219?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that as a result of the ban and subsequent publicity,<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Harry Became Sally<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">had sold out at Barnes and Noble.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four U.S. senators asked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for an explanation after his company removed the book When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment by conservative scholar, Ryan &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1891833,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}