Roosh V’s dating advice books memory holed for unspecified offensive content
Paul Joseph Watson
PrisonPlanet.com
September 11, 2018
Amazon has officially entered dystopian territory by banning an entire range of dating advice books because they violate unspecified “content guidelines.”
Controversial author Roosh Valizadeh revealed the ban last night, tweeting, “Amazon has removed 9 of my books from sale, including my newest book Game, which was ranking in the top 1000. They won’t tell me the specific reason. Many of the books were on sale for 5+ years.”
Amazon has removed 9 of my books from sale, including my newest book Game, which was ranking in the top 1000. They won’t tell me the specific reason. Many of the books were on sale for 5+ years. @CreateSpace & @AmazonKDP: can you tell me why the books have been removed? pic.twitter.com/gK2YQyjyap
— Roosh (@rooshv) September 10, 2018
Valizadeh later received an email from Amazon informing him that “content guidelines” were broken, but was again given no specifics.
“I feel like I’m in a Franz Kafka novel,” he tweeted.
I just got a new email from Amazon. They absolutely refuse to tell me which “content guidelines” were broken, but they encourage me to randomly guess what is wrong and start from scratch. I feel like I’m in a Franz Kafka novel. pic.twitter.com/Y9e0GvpMOK
— Roosh (@rooshv) September 10, 2018
According to Amazon’s guidelines, illegal content and porn are banned (none of which appear in Valizadeh’s books), so the only guideline he could be in violation of is “offensive content”.
“What we deem offensive is probably about what you would expect,” states the guideline, a completely vague description which could literally be anything that one person deems offensive.
“I believe the bannings began because the launch of Game was extremely successful. I sold 2,000 books in the first two days…