The top article today on BBC was about Amazon and the controversy over selling a book titled "Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Childlover's Code of Conduct."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11731928
This is beyond disturbing. What is next The Rapist's Guide to Sexual Violence or The Terrorist's Guide to Insighting Fear. Amazon say they don't promote criminal acts but work to avoid censorship. Is selling this type of book not in fact promoting criminal activity?
An article from Fox says this is not the first time Amazon has sold books that endorse illegal behavior. The are accepting pre-orders for a book titled "I Am the Market: How to Smuggle Cocaine by the Ton, in Five Easy Lessons." Before they also sold a video game in which the player stalks and rapes a mother and her child. They later removed it after being scrutinized in the media and by the public.
Since Amazon is offering advice on how to smuggle drugs, guides on how to molest innocent children and once selling a game where the user can be and feel the the rapist, will there be a rise in these types of illegal activity Amazon claims they do not support? Or will one who has he pedophile guide and drug smuggling guide get better at their criminal activity that these case are even more undetected?
There are already several Facebook groups/pages that ask people to boycott amazon, but I wonder what, if anything, it will do to hinder their advocating these types of publications.
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