{"id":762978,"date":"2021-09-16T15:44:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T19:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=762978"},"modified":"2021-09-16T15:44:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T19:44:06","slug":"amazon-blocks-ad-for-book-critical-of-black-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-blocks-ad-for-book-critical-of-black-lives-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Blocks Ad for Book Critical of Black Lives Matter"},"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\">20<\/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%2Famazon-blocks-ad-for-book-critical-of-black-lives-matter%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=762978&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 readability=\"30.032786885246\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Heritage Foundation scholar is latest conservative censored by Amazon<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1216237394-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-1216237394-e1593698082443.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-1216237394-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-1216237394-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2020\/07\/GettyImages-1216237394-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tBlack Lives Matter riots in Atlanta in July 2020 \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/santi-ruiz\/\" title=\"Posts by Santi Ruiz\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Santi Ruiz<\/a> \u2022 September 16, 2021 3:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"77.054320087495\">\n<p>Amazon blocked an ad for a book critical of the Black Lives Matter movement, the latest example of the retail giant censoring conservative voices.<\/p>\n<p>The online retailer prevented the Heritage Foundation from purchasing ads to promote Mike Gonzalez&#8217;s <em>BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution<\/em>. Amazon told Heritage that the ad &#8220;contains book\/s or content that is not allowed,&#8221; specifically &#8220;content that revolves around controversial or highly debated social topics is not permitted.&#8221; Amazon later reversed its decision and posted the ad, telling the <em>Washington Free Beacon <\/em>that its &#8220;policies were not enforced correctly in this case&#8221; and that the employees responsible would receive &#8220;additional training.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amazon refused to explain the nature of the error. But in recent months, the company has used its policies to suppress conservative books. A book on the transgender movement was <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/amazon-pulls-bestseller-on-transgender-issues-from-store-without-explanation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pulled<\/a> from the platform in February without explanation. After senators <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/senators-push-for-answers-on-amazon-book-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushed<\/a> Amazon to explain its decision, the retailer <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/amazon-now-bans-books-that-treat-gender-dysphoria-as-mental-illness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> it was changing its policies to ban any books that treat gender dysphoria as a mental illness. Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/amazon-funding-distribution-of-ibram-x-kendis-antiracist-books-in-public-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">funded an effort<\/a> to place hundreds of copies of critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi\u2019s book <em>Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You <\/em>in Virginia public schools.<\/p>\n<p><em>BLM <\/em>criticizes the titular movement for its Marxist roots. One of the three Black Lives Matter founders <a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/stories\/pcullors0722blacklives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in 2015 that she and another cofounder &#8220;are trained organizers; we are trained Marxists.&#8221; Gonzalez, a former journalist and Heritage senior fellow, said his book addresses important questions &#8220;after the 630 or more riots that left our cities burning, businesses destroyed and billions in damage, and Americans dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez said Amazon is &#8220;trying to limit how many Americans read this book&#8221; and asked whether books by left-leaning authors on Black Lives Matter and race faced the same restrictions. Heritage Foundation president Kay Coles James released a statement calling examples of &#8220;big tech censorship \u2026 inescapable and irrefutable.&#8221; &#8220;Conservative voices are deemed \u2018unacceptable\u2019 and are silenced,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertising makes up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/07\/17\/how-amazon-advertising-works.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">substantial<\/a> portion of Amazon\u2019s revenue. Amazon, Google, and Facebook together took up almost two thirds of the digital advertising market in 2020. A growing contingent of lawmakers worry that advertising consolidation on a few online platforms could harm market competition.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon has faced pressure from liberal politicians to exercise more control over which speech is allowed on the platform. Last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warren.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/2021.9.7%20Letter%20to%20Amazon%20on%20COVID%20Misinformation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> on Amazon to ban books containing &#8220;misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Heritage Foundation scholar is latest conservative censored by Amazon  Black Lives Matter riots in Atlanta in July 2020 \/ Getty Images  Santi Ruiz &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762978","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}