The Full Metal Jacket example realy illustrates the problem. When you remove Born to Kill from the helmet, youre not making content safer, youre destroying the films entire meaning about duality of man. Amazon treating these pieces as disposible marketing assets rather than cultural artifacts is whats most troubling. The lack of transparancy around these edits compounds the issue.
Amazon removed an entire section from the Audible recording of FIRE CEO Greg Lukianoff's book "Unlearning Liberty". Ironically, the section covered student free-speech cases involving profanity:
America has become a nation filled with people who are frightened of their own shadows. I'm glad FIRE is taking part in pushing back.
I read banned books.
The Full Metal Jacket example realy illustrates the problem. When you remove Born to Kill from the helmet, youre not making content safer, youre destroying the films entire meaning about duality of man. Amazon treating these pieces as disposible marketing assets rather than cultural artifacts is whats most troubling. The lack of transparancy around these edits compounds the issue.
Amazon removed an entire section from the Audible recording of FIRE CEO Greg Lukianoff's book "Unlearning Liberty". Ironically, the section covered student free-speech cases involving profanity:
https://www.thefire.org/news/blogs/eternally-radical-idea/why-did-audible-censor-my-book-about-free-speech-and-other
Amazon, like Apple, talks a good game...
It seems almost like AMZ and APPL actually DON'T talk a lot. But they DO game a lot...and not a good one, really.