Amazon Pulls Book
Amazon Pulls Book
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Comparing to Catcher in the Rye isn't a good comparison in terms of the content, but it does bring up the question, where do you draw the line? After all Catcher was dropped by many high schools due to the exact same issue, people being outraged by it.
The question is how do we decide what is banned and what isn't? You could take the "mob rule" approach (whatever the majority doesn't like) or the "First Amendment" approach (protect everything within reason, even if the majority finds it offensive). Amazon was trying to go to the "First Amendment" approach, which I think they deserve some credit for, until popular outrage forced them to backtrack.