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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: thundley4 on November 11, 2010, 12:35:32 PM
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-11-10 01:41 AM
Original message
Poll question: Pedophile Advice Book for Sale on Amazon
Amazon.com Inc. is selling a self-published guide that offers advice to pedophiles, and that has generated outrage on the Internet and threats to boycott the retailer.
The availability of "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct" calls into question whether Amazon has any procedures - or even an obligation - to vet books before they are sold in its online stores.
In a statement to the website TechCrunch, Amazon said:
"Amazon believes it is censorship not to sell certain books simply because we or others believe their message is objectionable. Amazon does not support or promote hatred or criminal acts, however, we do support the right of every individual to make their own purchasing decisions."
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This isn't the first time Amazon has sold material that promotes illegal activity. It is currently accepting pre-orders for the hardcover version of "I Am the Market: How to Smuggle Cocaine by the Ton, in Five Easy Lessons" by Luca Rastello.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/10/entertainment...
Well, what do you think DU? Protected free speech, or do we have another reason to hate on Amazon?
Poll result (62 votes)
Free speech, book stores shouldn't censor books, even those detailing criminal activity. (21 votes, 34%) Vote
Amazon has over-stepped its bounds and should voluntarily censor this filth. (38 votes, 61%) Vote
Other (please explain) (3 votes, 5%)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9534018
6. well they have been selling this book for quite some time
which I think is just as demented
Here's the description
"is a young, beautiful fashion photographer in Paris. One day her lover, Rene, takes her to a chateau, where she is enslaved, with Rene's approval, and systematically sexually assaulted by various other men. Later, Rene turns her over to Sir Stephen, an English friend who intensifies the brutality. But the final humiliation is yet to come."
Then too, are the collected works of John Norman, such as
http://www.amazon.com/Slave-Girl-Gor-Gorean-Saga/dp/075...
The stories all revolving around the concept that society works better when women are slaves.
And there is other crap that most decent people find to be very objectionable
http://www.amazon.com/Way-Things-Ought-Be/dp/B002E8NB8Y...
http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/045201...
lillypaddle (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-11-10 08:37 AM
Response to Reply #6
17. Do you find "The Story of O" objectionable?
I don't think you can compare certain consensual acts between adults to Pedophilia.
A pedophile could make that argument though.
Turborama (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-11-10 03:29 AM
Response to Original message
12. 3 DUers think it's OK for a pedophile instruction manual to be on sale anywhere?
Edited on Thu Nov-11-10 03:31 AM by Turborama
BTW From how it was explained on AC360 earlier, that book does more than "detailing criminal activity". As I said, it's an instruction manual for child molesters/rapists.
No, at 21 21 DUers think it's okay. Nice crowd you hang with.
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:puke:
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21 hypocrites if nothing else.
Ask those DUmb ****s about Glenn Beck's rights.
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21 hypocrites if nothing else.
Ask those DUmb ****s about Glenn Beck's rights.
Or President Bush's new book.
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WOW!
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So not surprised when DUmmies play semantics with comparing a book that tells people how to rape a child as opposed to what is a fictional account of something that has very few details on what is going on.
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What the DUmmies fail to grasp is that a private entity is NOT forced to abide by the First Amendment, ONLY the Government. If I don't like what somebody says on my property, then I can have them removed, forcibly, if need be. Since Amazon is a private entity, they have every right to sell or NOT sell what they want.
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The OP Lagc is a moron of the highest order. He was posting at Gunsnet and made the statement that if the Dems lost last Tuesday he was leaving the country. Instead he posted he was leaving the site for awhile due to his shock and turned tail and slunk back to DU to bother them with his stupid cut and paste crap.
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What's disgusting is that at the DUmp, 21 votes were for the book to continue to sell, knowing it promotes criminal behavior. Man, how messed up can you people be?!?! :mental: :censored:
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21 pedophiles...just 21...that's all? What about the guy in the long overcoat?....ooops...one of his false pants legs just fell down.
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21 pedophiles...just 21...that's all? What about the guy in the long overcoat?....ooops...one of his false pants legs just fell down.
It's up to 31 now.
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It's up to 31 now.
Why am I not surprised. How sickening. :mental:
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Well, I'll bet if Fat Che were unmausoleumed on Skins's island, he'd proudly boast he bought the book.
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Well, that's the party of NAMBLA - lower the age of consent to about three years of age is their stated goal.
The OP Lagc is a moron of the highest order. He was posting at Gunsnet and made the statement that if the Dems lost last Tuesday he was leaving the country. Instead he posted he was leaving the site for awhile due to his shock and turned tail and slunk back to DU to bother them with his stupid cut and paste crap.
wow, you're not kidding:
http://www.gunsnet.net/showthread.php?4135-Where-is-LAGC
they don't seem to miss him.