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Liberate Speech and the Free Flow of Information on Amazon.com! In December of 2010, Amazon.com decided to reverse it’s long standing, honorable and fair stance, that so long as the content being sold on their website is legal, they would allow it regardless any controversial nature surrounding it. Representatives for Amazon.com have defended the listings of various books [scholarly research, opinion, biography and fiction], concerned with issues commonly labeled “pedophilia”. A number of just such books [some well researched, and supported by empirical data] have been available through Amazon.com, for several years…and at least one, for roughly a decade. Without getting into to much detail…A very short lived e-book entitled “The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover’s Code of Conduct” was published, exclusively for the Amazon Kindle [an e-book reader, produced and sold by Amazon.com]. CNN’s Anderson Cooper picked up on this story, after seeing some uproar…and he promptly did a hatchet job on Amazon.com, as well as a few different books. Anderson Cooper’s yellow journalism caused a lot of misunderstanding amongst the public, as well as Amazon.com stock holders…Stock value dropped in the company rapidly, and by a substantial degree. Amazon.com executives panicked, and started delisting from their website everything they believed to have any positive expressions, related to “pedophilia”. In this whirlwind purge [a virtual “book burning”], Amazon.com delisted a number of scholarly books, containing sound research…and this is really where the problem rests. Amazon.com has apparently decided, to interfere with the free flow of research findings [regarding “pedophilia”], which have previously been sold and exchanged via their website. Has Amazon.com decided to censor?…to join in on a campaign to skew?…to foster and shelter ugly, malicious and devastating stereotypes? Amazon.com needs to remain impartial! Join and support the campaign, to liberate information, research, literature and diverse viewpoints on Amazon.com! Let’s all tell Amazon.com, that they must reclaim their integrity. Free expression, and the free flow of information, are non-negotiable! Let’s all tell Amazon.com, that it needs to return to serving all of it’s customer base, without bias…and to stop obscuring information and research! Free Speech is a Human Right! Please follow the links below, to find out more about this distressing turn of events, and what you can do about it… …Censorship on Amazon… …An open letter to Anderson Cooper (Cable News Network) and Jeff Bezos (amazon.com)…