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THE AMAZON FILES: New Docs Expose Amazon Caving to Biden Admin Pressure to Censor Books
NewsBusters ^ | 2/6/2024 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 02/06/2024 7:02:25 AM PST by JV3MRC

Explosive new evidence adds another terrifying chapter to the incestuous collusion story between President Joe Biden’s administration and Big Tech to censor free speech.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan unleashed a trove of subpoenaed documents on X (formerly Twitter) exposing the Biden admin pressuring leftist tech giant Amazon to censor books that went against government narratives. Amazon — already notorious for how it nuked free speech platform Parler in 2021 from Amazon Web Services for allowing wrongthink to remain uncensored — was ironically disturbed by the White House pressure. “Is the [Biden] Admin asking us to remove books,” asked one chilling email from an Amazon official. The documents actually showed Amazon capitulating to Biden’s pressure. Apparently, the Biden admin wasn’t content with limiting its dystopian speech control efforts to just Facebook and Twitter. Enter, The Amazon Files.

Jordan noted that when then-senior Biden White House official Andy Slavitt was revealed to be doing his boss’s dirty work by pressuring Facebook to “censor a meme and true information,” he “was pressuring Amazon at the same time.” In March 2021, said Jordan, “Slavitt fired off an email demanding to know who he and his White House colleagues could talk to at the company about ‘the high levels of propaganda and misinformation and disinformation of [sic] Amazon?’”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 1984; amazon; censorship; joebiden; twitterfiles

1 posted on 02/06/2024 7:02:25 AM PST by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

And they call US Nazis................


2 posted on 02/06/2024 7:11:07 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal qs are put up in hotels.....................)
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Amazon has banned a lot of books.

More information (from non-banned sites :-) ):

https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/world-jewish-congress-welcomes-amazon-move-to-remove-holocaust-denial-books-offers-assistance-in-identifying-further-material-3-4-2017

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/amazon-removes-books-rape-apologist-roosh_n_5b96ea09e4b0511db3e54945

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/23/3d-printed-gun-blueprint-was-uploaded-in-book-form-to-amazon-as-a-free-speech-exercise-amazon-removed-it/?utm_term=.4e5d2a4bf15c


3 posted on 02/06/2024 7:19:49 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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BTTT


4 posted on 02/06/2024 7:19:50 AM PST by nopardons
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Andy Slavitt is a health care advocate, advisor, entrepreneur, investor, government official, and expert. He was President Biden’s White House Senior Advisor for the Covid response and led many of the nation’s most important health care initiatives, serving as President Obama’s Head of Medicare and Medicaid and overseeing the turnaround, implementation and defense of the Affordable Care Act. Today he is a General Partner at Town Hall Ventures...


5 posted on 02/06/2024 7:21:36 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: JV3MRC

The real bookburners.


6 posted on 02/06/2024 7:21:52 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: JV3MRC

The government is censoring books. The fact that it does it through Amazon changes nothing. The government is violating the First Amendment.


7 posted on 02/06/2024 7:21:57 AM PST by I want the USA back (Delusionary people should not be given power over normal people.)
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To: JV3MRC

“Caving”? Their headquarters are in Arlington, VA or thereabouts.

Caving.


8 posted on 02/06/2024 7:23:46 AM PST by xoxox
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"Your honor and ladies and gentlemen of the jury, my client, Joe Biden, is innocent of this accusation."

"I intend to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he has never read a book and, in fact, cannot read." "And, furthermore, I intend to prove that, being unable to read or even understand what the purpose of books might be, my client, Joe Biden, is mentally incapable of comprehending the very concept of book censorship."

9 posted on 02/06/2024 7:27:35 AM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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Out of control government remains out of control


10 posted on 02/06/2024 9:50:35 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Google Andy Slavitt. He looks just like you’d imagine. Add to that, he adds “MBA” after his name. I and half the people I worked with have MBAs and I never saw ANYONE Include it on their business card.

Poser defined.


11 posted on 02/06/2024 10:47:34 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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