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American Pravda: Amazon Book Censorship
Banning Black Historiography During Black History Month
RON UNZ • MARCH 11, 2019
“As most are surely aware, the last year or two has seen a growing crackdown on free speech and free thought across the Internet, with our constitutionally-protected First Amendment rights being circumvented through the agency of monopolistic private sector corporations such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Although as yet our government has not gained the power to ban discordant views nor punish their advocates, anonymous tech company censors regularly take these steps, seemingly based upon entirely opaque and arbitrary standards which lack any power of appeal. No one really knows why some individuals are banned or “de-platformed” and others are not, and surely this looming uncertainty has imposed self-censorship upon hundreds of individuals for every publicized victim who receives an exemplary punishment.”
The problem is UNZ doesn’t have the Guaranteed Free Speech Ban Rules quite correct. In a nutshell, it’s government that’s forbidden to stifle free speech. Private and commercial free speech is not protected. Neither is the right to ban whatever speech or writing that you don’t like. Same for Amazon, Twitter, and all of the other social justice places. They are free to ban whatever they want and the government will protect their right to ban whatever they want to ban.
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