Amazon has officially entered dystopian territory by banning an entire range of dating advice books because they violate unspecified “content guidelines.”
Controversial author Roosh Valizadeh revealed the ban last night, tweeting, “Amazon has removed 9 of my books from sale, including my newest book Game, which was ranking in the top 1000. They won’t tell me the specific reason. Many of the books were on sale for 5+ years.”
Amazon has removed 9 of my books from sale, including my newest book Game, which was ranking in the top 1000. They won't tell me the specific reason. Many of the books were on sale for 5+ years.
@CreateSpace &
@AmazonKDP: can you tell me why the books have been removed?
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— Roosh (@rooshv)
September 10, 2018Valizadeh later received an email from Amazon informing him that “content guidelines” were broken, but was again given no specifics.
“I feel like I’m in a Franz Kafka novel,” he tweeted.
I just got a new email from Amazon. They absolutely refuse to tell me which "content guidelines" were broken, but they encourage me to randomly guess what is wrong and start from scratch. I feel like I'm in a Franz Kafka novel.
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— Roosh (@rooshv)
September 10, 2018According to
Amazon’s guidelines, illegal content and porn are banned (none of which appear in Valizadeh’s books), so the only guideline he could be in violation of is “offensive content”.
“What we deem offensive is probably about what you would expect,” states the guideline, a completely vague description which could literally be anything that one person deems offensive.
“I believe the bannings began because the launch of Game was extremely successful. I sold 2,000 books in the first two days and hit the top 700 on Amazon paperback on the first day. Even before Friday’s launch, Game was already in Amazon’s top 10,000. As far as I know, Amazon didn’t receive a single complaint about the content, but they removed it anyway,”
wrote Valizadeh, adding that Amazon sells all kinds of books which contain details of violent rape and sexual abuse.
“None of my books contain child rape scenes, physical abuse, pornography, or sexual violence, and yet they were banned. Were they banned because they were effective at helping men? Was it because executives at Amazon disagree with my political opinions? Was it an action from a rogue employee? They won’t tell me,” said Valizadeh.
More at:
https://www.infowars.com/fahrenheit-...versial-books/
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