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Report: Amazon Quietly Debuted New Policy Ending Sales Of Books Labeled ‘Hate Speech’

Emily Zanotti
Report: Amazon Quietly Debuted New Policy Ending Sales Of Books Labeled ‘Hate Speech’
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Internet mega-retailer Amazon appears to have quietly updated an internal rule, Just the News reports, eliminating an exemption for books and periodicals from its site-wide policy against selling items that contain or promote “hate speech.”

The rule change might have gone unnoticed except that a conservative author posted on social media that Amazon had ended its own sales of his book on transgenderism and barred third parties from selling the work.

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