{"id":551041,"date":"2021-06-03T14:20:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T18:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=551041"},"modified":"2021-06-03T14:20:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T18:20:55","slug":"five-conservative-films-amazon-and-jeff-bezos-have-censored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/five-conservative-films-amazon-and-jeff-bezos-have-censored\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Conservative Films Amazon And Jeff Bezos Have Censored"},"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\">18<\/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%2Ffive-conservative-films-amazon-and-jeff-bezos-have-censored%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=551041&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\/06\/GettyImages-1079533948.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>As news broke last week that Amazon has entered into an agreement to purchase MGM, one of the oldest, most venerable studios in Hollywood, the media\u2019s attention turned to the broad outlines of the $8.5-billion-dollar deal. Given the tech giant\u2019s atrocious record on free expression, conservatives might want to focus on the fine print.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>From<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/social-media-platform-parler-goes-dark-as-amazon-suspends-service\"> <span>deplatforming Parler<\/span><\/a><span> to<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/amazon-bans-books-framing-transgenderism-as-mental-illness\"> <span>scrubbing best-selling books<\/span><\/a><span> that challenge transgender orthodoxy, Amazon has proved it has no qualms stifling views it disagrees with. Which raises the question\u2014why should the public expect it to act honorably when it comes to movies?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Some will no doubt argue that even <\/span><i><span>if<\/span><\/i><span> Amazon censors films and filmmakers that fail to toe the leftist line, it\u2019s only buying a single movie studio. There are plenty of other film companies and streaming platforms in the U.S. But remember, there used to be plenty of other booksellers as well. Now, Jeff Bezos controls an<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/publishers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Joint-Letter-to-Rep-Cicilline-081720.pdf\"> <span>estimated 80%<\/span><\/a><span> of that business, and he\u2019s been using his power to artificially distort the market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>These five documentaries Amazon has suppressed in the last two years alone demonstrate why its attempt to seize a bigger piece of the showbiz pie is bad news for free speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What Killed Michael Brown (2020)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b> <\/b><span>If anyone should be safe from censorship, it\u2019s celebrated columnist Shelby Steele. A Hoover Institution fellow at Stanford and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, National Humanities Award, Writers Guild Award, and an Emmy for his documentary work with PBS, you\u2019d be hard-pressed to find a more decorated documentarian. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Yet when Steele tried to submit his film detailing what really caused the death of Ferguson\u2019s Michael Brown to Amazon\u2019s self-publishing arm, the tech giant decided Steele\u2019s work wasn\u2019t good enough to sit on the shelf alongside \u201cShark Exorcist\u201d and \u201cOur Alien Origin Story.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The company sent Steele\u2019s son, director Eli Steele, an email saying, \u201cUnfortunately, we have found that your title doesn\u2019t meet Prime Video\u2019s content quality expectations and is not eligible for publishing on the service at this time. We will not be accepting resubmission of this title, and this decision may not be appealed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words (2020)<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><b> <\/b><span>Amazon\u2019s treatment of \u201cCreated Equal\u201d proves that when it comes to black conservatives, there is no achievement great enough to prevent Jeff Bezos from muzzling them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Michael Pack constructed his documentary from more than 30 hours of interviews with one of the foremost legal minds of our generation. Even PBS recognized the public\u2019s interest in hearing from a man who rarely speaks from the bench, repeatedly airing the story of Thomas\u2019 rise from abject poverty in the segregated south to the highest court in the land as part of its U.S. history series. Amazon, however, evidently didn\u2019t find Thomas\u2019 singularly American tale worth honoring and dropped it from its service without warning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Adding insult to injury, after pulling \u201cCreated Equal\u201d during Black History month, the streaming giant continued to make a documentary about Thomas\u2019 discredited accuser, Anita Hill, available <\/span><i><span>for free<\/span><\/i><span> to Prime subscribers. The company\u2019s arrogant disregard of the nation\u2019s lone African-American Supreme Court Justice is so great, to this day, it has not deigned to tell the public or the press why it will not provide his story to its customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>Hoaxed (2019)<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><b> <\/b><span>Gonzo \u201cnew right\u201d commentator Mike Cernovich<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8991264\/fullcredits\/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm\"> <span>billed<\/span><\/a><span> his documentary on the sorry state of modern journalism as an \u201cinsider\u2019s look at the Fake News phenomenon and the consequences of media misinformation.\u201d Among the eclectic mix of subjects he interviewed were famed psychologist Jordan Peterson, Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams, Project Veritas founder James O\u2019Keefe, and Black Lives Matter-Greater New York president, Hawk Newsome. Yet despite the film\u2019s popularity and strong review score, Amazon removed it from its streaming platform without warning and without explanation. Then the story grew even stranger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As detailed in<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/are-streamers-muzzling-controversial-docs-1299790\/\"> <span>The Hollywood Reporter<\/span><\/a><span>, Amazon didn\u2019t just stop selling the title, it began removing it from the libraries of people who had <\/span><i><span>already bought it<\/span><\/i><span>.\u00a0 \u201cThe distributors were shocked,\u201d Cernovich told THR. \u201cThey had never seen this happen before. Amazon told them, \u2018It\u2019s not a technical issue. We don\u2019t have to tell you why we removed [it].\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In this case, however, it might not just have been conservative politics that got the doc yanked. The richest man in the world might have had a more personal interest. According to Cernovich: \u201cI believe the film was banned from Amazon because there is a sequence discussing Jeff Bezos and Amazon\u2019s $600 million contract with the CIA,\u201d he told THR. \u201cBezos does not want the public reminded of that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Citizen K (2019)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b> <\/b><span>The documentary about the downfall of one of Vladimir Putin\u2019s most formidable enemies had everything that makes for a prestige picture, including an Oscar-winning director and a premiere at the Venice film festival. Thus, it was no surprise when it scored a prime (no pun intended) position on Amazon\u2019s theatrical release calendar. But at some point between the calendar\u2019s announcement and the film actually hitting the service, the retailer got cold feet. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A source told<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/are-streamers-muzzling-controversial-docs-1299790\/\"> <span>The Hollywood Reporter<\/span><\/a><span>, \u201cThe film was seen as too incendiary and risky for a multinational corporation to distribute.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>The Plot against the President (2020)<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><b> <\/b><span>Sometimes, Amazon doesn\u2019t so much suppress as stall, as it did in the case of Amanda Milius\u2019 \u201cThe Plot Against the President.\u201d Like other filmmakers on this list, Milius brought an impressive pedigree to her project. Her father is Oscar-nominated writer\/director John Milius (\u201cDirty Harry,\u201d \u201cApocalypse Now\u201d), and she has a background in the State Department at the Bureau of Global Public Affairs. She based her documentary on the best-selling 2019 book from veteran journalist Lee Smith. In other words, her film was topical, timely, and well-researched.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Yet when Milius submitted the film to Amazon in early October, in plenty of time to release before Election Day, the company stonewalled, telling her it was \u201cunder review.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Milius\u2019 studio had a long history of placing films with Amazon and said it had never encountered such a problem before. \u201cWe\u2019ve never had an issue with a title getting blocked on Amazon to date,\u201d Turn Key Films CEO Cory Tucek told<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/amazon-facebook-give-cold-shoulder-to-pro-trump-doc-4080412\/\"> <span>The Hollywood Reporter<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cI think it is a little ironic that the first title we\u2019ve ever had subjected to this happens to be a title that talks about media corruption, bias, and censorship. I don\u2019t think it is a coincidence either that Amazon would block a title that sheds a favorable light on Donald Trump.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Or as Milius told THR, \u201cIf [Amazon] treated all political films equally it wouldn\u2019t be an issue. But Amazon has a history of discretely removing films that don\u2019t politically align with their agenda.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>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\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As news broke last week that Amazon has entered into an agreement to purchase MGM, one of the oldest, most venerable studios in Hollywood, the media\u2019s attention turned to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279093,"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\/06\/GettyImages-1079533948.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Five Conservative Films Amazon And Jeff Bezos Have Censored","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1079533948.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Five Conservative Films Amazon And Jeff Bezos Have Censored","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551041","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=551041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}