Congressman asks Amazon to stop selling neo-Nazi books, merchandise

Congressman Keith Ellison of the US Congress asked the company to announce concern about the "surprising number" of new Nazi and white nationalist books and e-books sold in Amazon on Tuesday and to delete it.

The Minnesota Democratic Party is a new research by Working Family Partnership and Ethnic and Economic Action Center that Amazon also sells "Baby jumpsuits, toys, children's Halloween costumes, flags, clothing, jewelry, Nazis, Neonachi printed ones "Said. , White nationalism, anti-Semitism, hatred of Islam and violence, racist image "

These lists seem to be in violation of Amazon's own policy, "Advertising or beautification of hatred, violence, race, sexual, religious intolerance intolerance products, or promotion of organization by such viewpoint is prohibited "The company's website says.

Amazon spokeswoman said on Tuesday in a statement:

At the request of Ellison, the Amazon website grew to include 2 million independent sellers and hundreds of millions of lists. This huge size and scale makes it difficult for companies to monitor all lists and sales on their websites.

In another case where oversight is suspected, Amazon advised last year that Amazon's Web site advises shoppers to purchase a combination of items that can be used to make bombs using the "buy frequently together" feature I will investigate the problem.

Amazon hates content, but it may still need to deal with the gray zone problem underlying that policy. Other technology giants such as Facebook and Google's YouTube must deal with this problem. For example, Amazon currently sells Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf". While others may treat it as historical text, some people may think that the advertisement of their hatred should be deleted.

Ellison's request was not the first time Amazon was asked to solve a controversial list on its website. In 2015, Amazon and several other electronic retailers banned the sale of Confederate flags and related goods, after being angry with the shooting of the historic African-American church in South Carolina.

Remuneration: The large inbound links on Amazon on the web seems to be links to the Amazon Sellers Alliance via fake news sites. These links are used to receive refunds of product sales (books, magazines, etc.) from advertisements on their website, or to receive refunds from Amazon's recommendations or book recommendations from the original post. This is only a small part of the public data related to the election. This article has quite a few of what I have found, but I would like to study the data more. I also plan to check the exact opposite prejudice, switching this network map, coding the "left" web site, and see which link mode is performing free micro promotion from the recent election It is.

I was controlled by another platform last week. This is my first time. This guy seems to be a new Nazi. That is, he does not have a "Neo-Nazi" profile badge, but most Neo-Nazis does not (even Richard Spencer does not call himself Neo-Nazi). His personal data shows Hitler's sympathy defense and open anti-closed conspiracy theory. After paying attention to how much my profile picture looks young, he humbly warned me that some people on this site do not represent such "PC". I will not do such a thing.

Last weekend, Richard Spencer was punched in an interview with a branch in Australia. One media wants to know if it is right that it makes a new Nazi. Spencer insists that he is not Neo Nazi, and most media do not doubt this claim, further complicating the moral "hit the new Nazis." Whoever knocks him down, he is one of the victims of "freedom of opposition" or a jab that is one of the ideas of the left and right.