Amazon Pulls Book
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I don't think there's any argument that pedophilia is bad, shocking and everything else. But I agree more with what jetskii is saying. If you are going to start banning stuff IMO you can't just do it completely arbitrarily, you need rules about what gets banned and what doesn't.
Otherwise it's like mob rule - the only time something will be banned is when people kick up a shit storm about it, as in this case. Is that really the way it should work?
Now obviously every company has a different approach to stuff like this and a place like Wal-Mart or Barnes and Noble would never in a million years consider carrying this title. The difference with web companies is that they tend to come from a more liberal mindset, and to their credit it seems like Amazon tried to stay true to the principle of total press freedom, until the media pressure on them just became too costly.