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by siedes 2673 days ago
Is CNN shocked that when you search for books related to vaccines, you get books related to vaccines?

Or are they insinuating that it is Amazon's job to decide what ideas/opinions are allowed to be sold on their marketplace and as such, it is their duty to deplatform any seller/writer who sells books about subjects that the current society decides is unacceptable? Sounds like modern book burning to me. Why is it that CNN or anyone thinks that people need to be safeguarded from opposing or even dangerous ideas? Do people not have the agency to decide for themselves? How come we don't give the same treatment for religious books like the bible or the quran? Certainly there's some dangerous ideas in them that could lead to hurting people. It doesn't have to stop there either, there are tons of other ideas that can be dangerous like the extremes of either side of the political spectrum.