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An action by Amazon is not centralized to anything. They’re a private company and not a monopoly. They can choose to sell or not sell anything they please. Centralized censorship would be the government or an unavoidable private monopoly decreeing that this book shall be unavailable.

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What if Amazon began censoring authors of color?

What if Amazon gave every new baby chocolate eclairs?

They can do that. And people can choose to not shop there if they do.

They could not refuse business based on race in the US.

Yes, but believing in chemtrails or the danger of vaccines is quite different than race, legally and essentially.

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