{"id":180299,"date":"2021-02-27T14:30:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T19:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=180299"},"modified":"2021-02-28T10:34:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T15:34:44","slug":"the-end-of-conservative-books-amazon-quietly-bans-books-they-deem-offensive-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-end-of-conservative-books-amazon-quietly-bans-books-they-deem-offensive-hate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The End Of Conservative Books\u2019: Amazon Quietly Bans Books They Deem Offensive, \u2018Hate Speech\u2019"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fthe-end-of-conservative-books-amazon-quietly-bans-books-they-deem-offensive-hate-speech%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=180299&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-logo.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Conservatives are sounding the alarm about an updated Amazon policy that bans books the ubiquitous billion-dollar company deems offensive or includes so-called \u201chate speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As noted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/amazon-not-streaming-clarence-thomas-doc-during-black-history-month\">The Daily Wire<\/a>, Amazon has ramped up its censorship on conservative views in recent weeks. For example, a popular documentary on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was banned from their streaming service this past week. Before that move, the company deplatformed conservative Ryan Anderson\u2019s book critical of gender theory, \u201cWhen Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Just the News <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/technology\/prior-removing-transgender-critical-book-amazon-changed-policies-ban-books-hate\">reached out<\/a> to Amazon over the ban on Anderson\u2019s book, the outlet said the company directed them to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/help\/customer\/display.html?nodeId=201995150\">page<\/a> outlining their \u201cContent Guidelines for Books.\u201d Under a section labeled \u201cOffensive Content,\u201d Amazon states that they \u201cdon\u2019t sell certain content including content that we determine is hate speech, promotes the abuse or sexual exploitation of children, contains pornography, glorifies rape or pedophilia, advocates terrorism, or other material we deem inappropriate or offensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA review of those policies suggests that sometime in the last few months Amazon made a major change to the ways in which it moderates book content on its servers, imposing a much stricter standard on books than it had previously done,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/technology\/prior-removing-transgender-critical-book-amazon-changed-policies-ban-books-hate\">report<\/a> said. It appears the company recently added so-called \u201chate speech\u201d to their guidelines on book platforming, and is amping up their censorship of the \u201coffensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daily Wire podcast host and conservative author Matt Walsh warned that the designation from Amazon broadened to include conservative views, as it seems to be leaning, could lead to the potential \u201cend of conservative books.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Amazon decides to label conservative books \u2018hate speech,\u2019 that\u2019s effectively the end of conservative books,\u201d he posted to Twitter on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublishers won\u2019t bother publishing books that can\u2019t be sold on Amazon,\u201d he explained. \u201cThis is a hugely important issue. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s getting all the attention it deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If Amazon decides to label conservative books \u201chate speech,\u201d that\u2019s effectively the end of conservative books. Publishers won\u2019t bother publishing books that can\u2019t be sold on Amazon. This is a hugely important issue. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s getting all the attention it deserves.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWalshBlog\/status\/1365691715840073731?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Author and critic of progressive gender theory Abigail Shrier posted a lengthy thread offering a similar warning, emphasizing Amazon\u2019s reach.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cWe\u2019re really not making a big enough deal of the fact that [Amazon]\u00a0<\/span>has begun deleting books,\u201d she said on Saturday. \u201cAmazon now claims the right to bar all books that are \u2018inappropriate or offensive.\u2019 Of course, nearly *every book* worth reading could be characterized as \u2018inappropriate\u2019 or \u2018offensive\u2019 to someone.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Amazon now claims the right to bar all books that are &#8220;inappropriate or offensive.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/marbANIvjM\">https:\/\/t.co\/marbANIvjM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, nearly *every book* worth reading could be characterized as &#8216;inappropriate&#8217; or &#8216;offensive&#8217; to someone. \/2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TRALPVao0C\">pic.twitter.com\/TRALPVao0C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbigailShrier\/status\/1365409348608909313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cBut also, Amazon is manifestly dishonest about censoring books that are \u2018offensive\u2019 or \u2018inappropriate.\u2019 They continue to sell books like this, which discusses very young children performing fellatio,\u201d Shrier highlighted. \u201c<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">And I don\u2019t believe they should stop selling it!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBooks that surprise and inform and challenge us to see things differently are usually offensive to someone. In the short term, sounding the alarm may increase sales of a particular book. But this is a dangerous move \u2013 and we are all too complacent about it,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Books that surprise and inform and challenge us to see things differently are usually offensive to someone.<\/p>\n<p>In the short term, sounding the alarm may increase sales of a particular book. But this is a dangerous move \u2013 and we are all too complacent about it. \/4<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbigailShrier\/status\/1365409350777380866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhen a company controls over 83% of the market for books, it begins the process of deleting ideas from a society,\u201d the author argued. \u201cA bookseller can sell whatever it wants. If \u2018Marxist Books\u2019 wants to only sell books that conform to its ideology, OK; that has integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut this is the \u2018world\u2019s largest bookseller.\u2019 Amazon can basically make books disappear for *all readers* \u2014 and does so on a blatantly dishonest basis. Under guise of removing \u2018inappropriate\u2019 content, they will really be removing ideas they disfavor,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">But this is the &#8220;world&#8217;s largest bookseller.&#8221; Amazon can basically make books disappear for *all readers* \u2014 and does so on a blatantly dishonest basis.<\/p>\n<p>Under guise of removing &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; content, they will really be removing ideas they disfavor.<\/p>\n<p>\/6<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbigailShrier\/status\/1365409352396378112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPlease do not make the mistake of analogizing this to a tiny Colorado bakery. There\u2019s a huge difference betw one baker refusing to make a particular cake and Target, Amazon, or Apple deleting content: scale \u2013 i.e., the difference between homicide and genocide,\u201d she wrote. \u201cStart to understand the power of scale. The difference between Maoist Books refusing a book and Amazon, is that books Amazon disfavors will never be published in the first place \u2014 which is exactly what the book banners want.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Start to understand the power of scale.<\/p>\n<p>The difference between Maoist Books refusing a book and Amazon, is that books Amazon disfavors will never be published in the first place \u2014 which is exactly what the book banners want. \/8<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbigailShrier\/status\/1365409354015367170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cIf the pipe that 83% of book sales flow through shuts off, those books will never get published. Why would a publisher take a chance on a book that [Amazon]\u00a0<\/span>won\u2019t carry? It won\u2019t.\u00a0<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">NOW is the time to get upset,\u201d she urged. \u201cFor the moment, while we can still express this on [Twitter]<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">, NOW is the time. Writers are being dropped by agents and refused by publishers *right now* because of Amazon\u2019s move. Time is running out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NOW is the time to get upset. For the moment, while we can still express this on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@twitter<\/a>, NOW is the time.<\/p>\n<p>Writers are being dropped by agents and refused by publishers *right now* because of Amazon&#8217;s move.<\/p>\n<p>Time is running out. \/10<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbigailShrier\/status\/1365409355609239553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/amazon-not-streaming-clarence-thomas-doc-during-black-history-month\">Amazon Snubs Clarence Thomas During Black History\u00a0Month<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives are sounding the alarm about an updated Amazon policy that bans books the ubiquitous billion-dollar company deems offensive or includes so-called \u201chate speech.\u201d As noted by The Daily Wire, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274374,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Amazon-logo.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018The End Of Conservative Books\u2019: Amazon Quietly Bans Books They Deem Offensive, \u2018Hate Speech\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Amazon-logo.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018The End Of Conservative Books\u2019: Amazon Quietly Bans Books They Deem Offensive, \u2018Hate Speech\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180299","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=180299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}