Amazon, HOWTO ebook, "Pedosexuals", "Dr Phil" and such things...!

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Amazon selling HOWTO ebook for "Pedosexuals," TV pundits froth at mouth

Xeni Jardin at 5:21 PM Wednesday, Nov 10, 2010 

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I expect more than one cable news channel to devote mega time over the next 24 hours tothis Kindle download, which purports to be a HOWTO guidebook for pedophiles. Oh, there you go, just as I'm composing this, Anderson Cooper tweets that Dr. Phil will be on tonight for that very purpose. Presumably, Apple's digital bookstore would never allow this to happen, or so the sales pitch goes. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? (When) will Amazon remove the book from sale, and/or should they? Amazon said in a statement that it "believes it is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable." Discuss.

BOOK, SEX, CENSORSHIP • TAGS: PEDOPHILES, PEDOPHILIA

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#1 • 5:37 PM, Nov 10 • Reply • 

Anon

I'm going to throw up now

#2 • 5:39 PM, Nov 10 • Reply • 

Anon

Someone who read the book, for research purposes: http://iasshole.org/?p=2138

#3 • 5:39 PM, Nov 10 • Reply • 

slk

i definitely expected fame-hounds like Anderson Cooper and Dr. Phil to be all over this.

#4 • 5:40 PM, Nov 10 • Reply • 

mgfarrelly

Wait, wait...are you saying that horrible people can put horrible things on the internet?No...that's not true...that's impossible!

Quick! Everyone freak out and boycott Amazon! And the library! And every bookstore to every carry a copy of "Mein Kampf" or "American Psycho"!

At least we have Dr. Phil to bring his utterly useless folksy nonsense to the issue. I'm sure a comparison to some kind of farm animal in distress is being crafted in his noggin even as I type this.

The more attention heaped on this vile little e-book the more money the author makes for making it and more more attention he/she/it receives. We're giving the bastards just what they desire, you know this?

#5 • 5:43 PM, Nov 10 • Reply • 

lbigbadbob

Streisand effect, I choose you!

#6 • 5:48 PM, Nov 10 • Reply • 

dpratt71

I believe Amazon.com has the right to sell this book. They also have the right not to sell it. I hope they decide not to sell it.

#7 • 5:55 PM, Nov 10 • Reply • 

Anon in reply to dpratt71

Very true. Either way, it's a big win for Apple's approach.

#8 • 5:55 PM, Nov 10 • Reply • 

wygit

OMG. 1500+ reviews (or comments, as I highly doubt anyone has bought it at all) and a few of them I checked had dozens of comments on the reviews.

One person who reviewed and talked about the Streisand effect got this as a comment.

"anyone who condones this crap should post their home address so we can blow your heads off and save overselves some takes payer money later. "

#9 • 5:56 PM, Nov 10 • Reply • 

Anon

More importantly, you know the writers at NBC are already working out how to use this as a plot device in an upcoming Law and Order: SVU.

#10 • 6:00 PM, Nov 10 • Reply • 

thebelgianpanda

I was writing something else, but I deleted it, simply because there is no rational way to argue this. But when push comes to shove, I'll go with free speech. However I think the author better understand his free speech may come with some push and shove.

(boing boing)

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