Signal reports that the Biden team saw no apparent difference between targeting books on Amazon and any other forms of social media censorship that it was pushing.
Andrew Slavitt, then a senior adviser on Biden’s COVID-19 response team, had previously asked, “Who can we talk to about the high levels of propaganda and misinformation and disinformation [on] Amazon?”
And by “talk to”, they meant get rid of.
The resulting compromise instead settled for shadow banning the books.
In this discussion, a staffer noted that “we did enable Do Not Promote for anti-vax books whose primary purpose is to persuade readers vaccines are unsafe or ineffective on 3/9, and will review additional handling options for these books with you, [redacted], and [redacted] on 3/19.”
That March 9 decision to change Amazon’s algorithm to avoid promoting “anti-vax books” appears to have happened after the meeting with White House staff.
Who were the people names that were redacted?
Another example of the left secretly doing what they accuse the right of being guilty of. In Florida, DeSantis is pilloried for keeping adult content out of elementary schools, accused of being a book burner, all the while no such restrictions are applied to the adult marketplace. Conversely the Biden administration sneaks surreptitiously affecting the book market to diminish the sales of countering opinions.
Both, in a way are restricting speech. One legally and in keeping with indecency decisions, the other dishonest as hell.
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