{"id":12150,"date":"2019-04-09T09:15:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T13:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=12150"},"modified":"2019-04-09T09:26:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T13:26:38","slug":"amazon-is-on-a-digital-book-burning-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/amazon-is-on-a-digital-book-burning-spree\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Is on a Digital Book Burning Spree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Image source — BARE NAKED ISLAM, Newly Sharia-compliant AMAZON has banned the book \u201cMohammed\u2019s Koran \u2013 Why Muslims kill for Islam\u201d<\/strong><\/em> with no explanation — https:\/\/barenakedislam.com\/2019\/02\/27\/newly-sharia-compliant-amazon-has-banned-the-book-mohammeds-koran-why-muslims-kill-for-islam-with-no-explanation\/<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Breitbart<\/strong>, by Allum Bokhari — April 8, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Under pressure from left-wing journalists and activists, Amazon is purging right-wing authors from its store, including a book co-authored by English Islam critic and independent commentator Tommy Robinson.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The web retail giant has become the dominant market player in book sales, accounting for nearly 50 percent of physical and 83 percent of e-book sales in the U.S. As such, Amazon has the power to effectively cut an author off from the vast majority of the books market.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazon began its new round of purges by targeting the white nationalist fringe. In February, the tech giant banned a number of books from white identitarian Jared Taylor, and a book called The White Nationalist Manifesto by Greg Johnson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This followed bans on Holocaust revisionist books in 2017, and a purge of all books by controversial pickup blogger and author Daryush \u201cRoosh\u201d\u00a0Valizadeh in 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with financial blacklisting, a censorship spree that starts by targeting extreme ideas quickly moves towards the censorship of more mainstream ones. In early March, the online retailer banned Muhammed\u2019s Koran: Why Muslims Kill for Islam, a Chronological Koran and critique of the Islamic religion co-authored by British populist Tommy Robinson.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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