…but where does it end?
Amazon has pulled the book “The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover’s Code of Conduct” from their eBook selection. As soon as it was available, protests, boycotts, and other threats ensued. The book’s title accurately describes its contents.
When I first heard about this, I thought perhaps the title was just a poor taste attempt at a clever tongue-in-cheek eye-catching title. But no, it is a book written from a sympathetic point of view that goes as far as to advise pedophiles how to avoid the law. I won’t go on about how appalled I am that this book exists. Or how I wish all pedophiles were too illiterate or unmotivated to complete a book. I imagine _most_ people would agree with me.
One could argue freedom of speech protects this book and it should be available at the Amazon Marketplace. I believe in that freedom to write and speak about what is on ones mind whole-heartedly. The author utilized that freedom to create that work. He has the freedom to try to sell it. No one is banning his attempts to sell it. But a corporation is not obligated to further someone’s exposure, help them gain an audience, or propel them to make money.
And from a business perspective, it’s not intelligent for a company such as Amazon to carry something with that specific point of view. Why they thought they should carry it in the first place is beyond me. Whoever set that up probably lost their corner window office.
This isn’t the first time Amazon has encountered such controversy. One would think they would have taken steps to better screen items to be listed through their marketplace. Although, without any industry experience, I’m sure just about anyone could have easily weeded out such a bluntly titled book.
This won’t be the end of “The Pedophile’s Guide…” as I’m sure there are smaller internet-based companies that deal in controversial material who will be happy to carry the now famous book. What free publicity won’t do for someone.
So there was a Garfield comic strip printed on Veterans Day with Garfield squishing a spider, the spider thinking he will be famous and have a day of remembrance, then children learning about “National Stupid Day”. Veterans were offended, the dude that does the comic apologized, blah blah blah.
It’s Garfield…who the hell still reads the Garfield strip? I never would’ve known about the strip if the Veterans’ advocate people didn’t get a pole up their ass about it.
Too bad he couldn’t flip another hit album.
I’m cruising through my 700 channels with nothing on and something catches my eye…it says “The Vanilla Ice Project”. I thought it was gonna be like rehab or anger management. But it was on DIY (do it yourself network). So I had to look out of sick curiosity and wicked boredom. I’ll be damned if he wasn’t renovating a house to flip. Apparently he’s a successful general contractor.
Still a cry baby douche bag, but at least he works. And for this job he can’t just steal the bassline of a classic song and put shitty lyrics on top of it. Although I guess he could steal some dry wall and slap some cheap ass Big Lots paint on it.
