[116952] in Cypherpunks
Re: Amazon Gets Bent Over
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reese)
Tue Aug 24 10:26:46 1999
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:27:56 -1000
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From: Reese <reeza@flex.com>
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Sounds like censorship. Mindy should have signed herself as Mrs. Guy Montag.
I may not agree with some of the titles, but I oppose efforts to suppress
them.
Hmmm, Amazon doesn't seem to carry the DuPont Blasters Handbook either,
which citizens watchdog group should we blame this on???
Reese
At 06:14 PM 23-08-99 -0500, Eric Cordian wrote:
>It seems the irate soap-opera watching housewives are not content in just
>getting Amazon to drop the BL Library, but are pursuing a War of
>Anihilation against Amazon until they stop selling all books which do not
>slavishly promote the child sexual abuse therapy industry POV.
>
>To wit, the following spam, floating about the Net:
>
>-----
>
>Message-ID: <7prj3b$3nqi$5@newssvr03-int.news.prodigy.com>
>From: MINDY R ELLIOTT-ADELMAN <MINDYE@prodigy.net>
>Subject: Amazon.com Supports the Legalization of Child Abuse
>
>Open letter to the managers, editor, and owners of Amazon.com:
>
>I will be closing out all of my business with your organization as I can
>not support a company who promotes the sexual abuse of children.
>
>I received email that Amazon.com is selling books that promote the alleged
>right of adult men to commit pedophilia. I went to your web site to check
>for myself and discovered it was true. I found several books supporting
>the organization NAMBLA's fight to legalize child sexual abuse. I am
>appalled.
>
>-----
>
>Looks like Tom Schonhoff is learning the hard way why one does not
>negotiate with terrorists. :)
>
>--
>Eric Michael Cordian 0+
>O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
>"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
>
>
