[dalbasal]

Are we having a discussion about amazon having censorial power, or how amazon should wield this power?

The vast majority of decisions at amazon don't attract media attention. They're just decisions. Sell this. Promote that. Reorder. Don't reorder. If you control 75% of the book market... you are censor-ish. even if these decisions are neutral, they still shape the book business in a censor-like way.

Amazon are sitting in a censorial seat. So are the other, content-centric monopolies like google & facebook. Youtube videos, websites, blogs, books, etc. When you go to produce one of these, you consider: what will google/fb/amzn think? Will it appear in feeds? Will it rank? Will it get an 18+ rating?. What makes or doesn't make that censorship is market share. A "true" censor, censors all the papers. An editor only edits one. If there is only one magazine, magazine censorship is default.

In any case, I find a lot of current anti-censorship discussions off-mark. There appears to be some cultural/moral/normative shifts in boardrooms. Are you unhappy with the power in those boardrooms, or with whatever specific decision got made last tuesday. I get the feeling that the latter is the main one.