For anyone who says that theyre uncomfortable with punishng Amazon for giving a platform to the documentary thats considered dangerous misinformation heres an excerpt on how they handed a book on pedophilia:
According to former employees, the company’s priority — making as much content as possible available to its customers — meant that essentially everything legal was permitted.
That began to change in 2010, when “The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure” appeared in the Kindle store. An employee on the content evaluation team, given only a few minutes to check the self-published book for blatant copyright violations, assumed that it was a bizarre joke. He did not have the time to read it, he told us in an interview. If he had, he would have noticed that it described how to approach children and included erotic stories about positive sexual experiences between children and adults. Unsurprisingly, a PR fracas ensued. Amazon removed the book in response to the outcry — then reinstated it and then removed it again in response to further outcry. The company introduced additional guidelines for sexual content, yet the process was still largely ad hoc, according to the former content reviewer, with decisions made by “a lot of business folks and software engineers” lacking subject-matter expertise.
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the key there is the book was removed after PUBLIC OUTCRY and changes to their protocol were made due to PUBLIC OUTCRY. Its clear Amazon is subject to the same criticisms that Irving is. Yet in this issue they're not held to the same standard by the public as Irving is.
According to former employees, the company’s priority — making as much content as possible available to its customers — meant that essentially everything legal was permitted.
That began to change in 2010, when “The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure” appeared in the Kindle store. An employee on the content evaluation team, given only a few minutes to check the self-published book for blatant copyright violations, assumed that it was a bizarre joke. He did not have the time to read it, he told us in an interview. If he had, he would have noticed that it described how to approach children and included erotic stories about positive sexual experiences between children and adults. Unsurprisingly, a PR fracas ensued. Amazon removed the book in response to the outcry — then reinstated it and then removed it again in response to further outcry. The company introduced additional guidelines for sexual content, yet the process was still largely ad hoc, according to the former content reviewer, with decisions made by “a lot of business folks and software engineers” lacking subject-matter expertise.
The Hate Store: Amazon’s Self-Publishing Arm Is a Haven for White Supremacists
The company gives extremists and neo-Nazis banned from other platforms unprecedented access to a mainstream audience — and even promotes their books.
www.propublica.org
the key there is the book was removed after PUBLIC OUTCRY and changes to their protocol were made due to PUBLIC OUTCRY. Its clear Amazon is subject to the same criticisms that Irving is. Yet in this issue they're not held to the same standard by the public as Irving is.
