Jeff Bezos - past controversies and present discomfort ( pizzagate )

submitted by Kiwi_Slave

Nobody was looking as uncomfortable in Trump Tower as Jeff Bezos, oligarch of Amazon and the Washington Post:

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Like all things political, there is a backstory. Admittedly, there is a disingenuous first amendment argument here. Many would judge pedophilia as outside the bounds of protected speech. Separate from that, Bezos basically was running a book store. Even if pedophiles can legally write about their depravity, no bookseller is under any obligation to carry their books. Amazon kept stepping on that rake. Why? Is this why Bezos is desperate to stop Trump from taking office?

From 2002 - "Amazon defends sale of pedophile book" http://www.wnd.com/2002/10/15397/

Didn't want to back down in 2010 either: "Child Advocates Calling for Jeff Bezos' Head" http://www.cnbc.com/id/40157859

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Censorship is a slippery slope. Although I think Jeff Bezos is a scumbag for allowing the Washington Post (which he owns) to be such a pathetic and libellious democrat lap dog, I can't blame him for his refusal to become the arbitrator of which book gets to be sold on his platform. If you ban that book, then you also have to ban historical books like the Quran (that advocates murdering non-believers) or Mein Kampf which basically lays out Hitler's crazy genocidal plans etc. Next you'll start removing Nietzsche due to his influence on Hitler, and also Freud for his incestuous obsession about sexual depravation as the central tenet of the essence of man. In the end, you end up in Farenheit 451. Not the kind of slope anyone would want to step on.