Amazon Awareness

I am writing this primarily to raise awareness about what is sure to be a growing problem in regards to content that is not only available on the internet, but is also being made more readily available by large big named providers of web content such as Amazon.com. I am speaking of content that is PROFOUNDLY objectionable to most individuals I know. Before I go any further, allow me to show you a couple of stories regarding Amazon.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2010/1112/How-can-Amazon-tame-controversy-over-book-on-pedophilia

http://www.komando.com/about/my-log.aspx?id=9809

Please take some time to read these stories before reading further into this blog post so that you will understand the points I’m about to make.

I am not a fan of government regulating even MORE than they already do, but things such as this will be used to justify a government control over internet content to the public. This lack of proactive controls by Amazon makes me sick, and even more than their lack of proactive control, their initial attitude and response to the how to pedophilia book’s presence on their site is far beyond sickening. It is infuriating. They equate removing a how-to book on pedophilia as being akin to censorship! The VAST majority of individuals who use Amazon do not know things like this are even available on their site, and the only way to simultaneously keep the government out of the overseer of content business AND keep scum bags like Amazon from using censorship as an excuse to give a platform to PEDOPHILES(!) is to be consistently alert and make our voices heard both by email and by withholding our money from them. Amazon is not the only company to engage in this kind of twisted justification, and we should choose to be as informed as possible about who we give our business to. I know we almost certainly cannot only do business with those whom we agree with; however, there IS a difference between doing business with those whom we disagree with in some issues and choosing to be completely blind to an egregious example like the one mentioned in these stories. More than anything, we should at least be aware enough to send them some sort of communication informing them of our intent to cease doing business with them unless they do not engage in such practices. As you saw in the above stories, the first response of Amazon was to defend their decision, but they eventually yielded to financial pressures that arose soon after. If all else fails, LEARN TO SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE. Refuse to shop til they drop.