Amazon is toying with our first amendment right to free speech.
Following on the heels of Amazon shadow banning Abigail Shrier’s book, “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.” about the transgender social contagion affecting young women, Ryan Anderson’s book, “When Harry Became Sally “was outright banned by the tech giant. The book, which had previously been on Amazon’s bestseller list, aimed to provide "thoughtful answers to questions arising from our transgender moment" and offered "a balanced approach to public policy on gender identity.”
“The Transgender Industrial Complex,” reporting on the industry of gender, by Scott Howard, was banned by Amazon nearly as fast as it hit the platform in 2020, though it has reappeared. This week, Amazon temporarily took down the book “Desist, Detrans, & Detox: Getting Your Child Out of the Gender Cult,” by Maria Keffler. No warning, no email, just an initial de-platforming, followed by a cryptic apology and reinstatement.
In February this year, Amazon reported that the company’s policies changed between 2018-2021, attempting to frame Anderson’s book as offensive for referring to LGBTQ+ identities as mental illness. Anderson refuted those charges. The banning itself is a blatant attack on free speech, speech that Amazon has described as hateful, though curiously, Hitler’s tome, “Mein Kampf,” didn’t make the banned-for-hate cut list. Amazon holds 80% of the book market, so a ban, a shadow ban, and a de-platforming with a re-platforming can cause damage to any profits a writer may secure through book sales, not to mention their reputations. The forced loss of income and damage to writers' reputations by de-platforming their books is egregious. But banning books goes far beyond egregious into territory we should be responding to.
Beyond this tyranny and overt assault on our first amendment rights in America, lies a darker reality yet.
Gender Identity has opened new markets for the medical-industrial complex.
What happened between Ryan’s publication of “When Harry Became Sally,” its best-seller status, and the subsequent removal of the book, while other books on the topic of the gender industry were also being removed and shadow banned? Let’s examine.
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