{"id":376892,"date":"2018-09-11T16:25:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/amazon-begins-banning-controversial-books\/"},"modified":"2018-09-11T16:25:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:25:42","slug":"amazon-begins-banning-controversial-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/amazon-begins-banning-controversial-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Begins Banning Controversial Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Roosh V\u2019s dating advice books memory holed for unspecified offensive content<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>September 11, 2018 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/110918roosh1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\"><strong>Amazon has officially entered dystopian territory by banning an entire range of dating advice books because they violate unspecified \u201ccontent guidelines.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Controversial author Roosh Valizadeh revealed the ban last night, tweeting, \u201cAmazon has removed 9 of my books from sale, including my newest book Game, which was ranking in the top 1000. They won\u2019t tell me the specific reason. Many of the books were on sale for 5+ years.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Amazon has removed 9 of my books from sale, including my newest book Game, which was ranking in the top 1000. They won&#8217;t tell me the specific reason. Many of the books were on sale for 5+ years. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CreateSpace?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CreateSpace<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmazonKDP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AmazonKDP<\/a>: can you tell me why the books have been removed? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gK2YQyjyap\">pic.twitter.com\/gK2YQyjyap<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Roosh (@rooshv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rooshv\/status\/1039144452722327552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Valizadeh later received an email from Amazon informing him that \u201ccontent guidelines\u201d were broken, but was again given no specifics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">\u201cI feel like I\u2019m in a Franz Kafka novel,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I just got a new email from Amazon. They absolutely refuse to tell me which &#8220;content guidelines&#8221; were broken, but they encourage me to randomly guess what is wrong and start from scratch. I feel like I&#8217;m in a Franz Kafka novel. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y9e0GvpMOK\">pic.twitter.com\/Y9e0GvpMOK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Roosh (@rooshv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rooshv\/status\/1039241043273818117?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kdp.amazon.com\/en_US\/help\/topic\/G200672390\">Amazon\u2019s guidelines<\/a>, illegal content and porn are banned (none of which appear in Valizadeh\u2019s books), so the only guideline he could be in violation of is \u201coffensive content\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">\u201cWhat we deem offensive is probably about what you would expect,\u201d states the guideline, a completely vague description which could literally be anything that one person deems offensive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">\u201cI believe the bannings began because the launch of Game was extremely successful. I sold 2,000 books in the first two days&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/fahrenheit-2018-amazon-begins-banning-controversial-books.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roosh V\u2019s dating advice books memory holed for unspecified offensive content Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comSeptember 11, 2018 Amazon has officially entered dystopian territory by banning an entire range of dating advice books because they violate unspecified \u201ccontent guidelines.\u201d Controversial author Roosh Valizadeh revealed the ban last night, tweeting, \u201cAmazon has removed 9 of my books from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-376892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}