If this bothers you, do as Amazon and eBay have done, then exercise your personal right of association to do business with someone else. Unless you are interested in setting up a "Ministry of Compelled Trade" to circumvent a "Ministry of Social Behavior", like every other participant in our market, Vote with Your Dollars.
Complaining about "Cancel Culture" isn't going to do a damn thing to convince Amazon and eBay to relist these items, but you spending your money elsewhere will.
For what it's worth, you can find "banned" Seuss books over at ABE Books:
And if you don't want to support ABE Books (being an Amazon company and all), get to your local bookstore to see if you can send some dollars their way. I'm sure they would appreciate it.
All I'm seeing is a lot of learned helplessness when it comes to commercial venues declining to carry some works. (This is not new - Walmart's been "censoring" content for decades in its brick-and-mortar establishments.) You write as as if becoming a "dissident" is something new, yet you've done it yourself with this publication.
As for handing too much power to Them (the faceless Big Tech gulag masters), you're making the same mistake that other conservatives do around Big Tech and that's to assume that FB et al. are eternal and we're stuck with them. "They" only get to decide when you *let* them.
As for being "cancelled" at your job should your private conversations become known more widely - this is nothing new either. Unless you live in Montana or belong to a decent union, you're likely subject to at-will employment.
I appreciate what you're trying to say here, but complaining about how the world is unfair (and has been for decades) isn't going to improve anything. If you don't like it, lobby for better labor laws (where you can't be fired for activity independent of your job), buy your books from markets that don't refuse to carry books for "Woke" reasons, and find better online services to communicate with your friends and family. (Facebook didn't spring out of the Big Bang fully formed and also isn't likely to remain dominant indefinitely.) If you have problems with the network effects that Facebook (and other companies) have created, so that it's hard for your circle to move elsewhere, lobby your federal representatives for laws mandating personal data property rights (including the right to take your data elsewhere, a la Europe's GDPR) and for reinvigorated antitrust enforcement so that we avoid the situation in the future where a company can sustain off a walled garden of users instead of interoperating with other companies with other approaches and philosophies.
There are a ton of actions that can be taken today to improve the state of what ails us, but everyone wants to pretend that they're Solzhenitsyn, when they're a good bit more powerful and have more access to levers to change things than Aleksandr had in his Soviet penal colony. Your political opponents aren't shy using those levers - don't unilaterally disarm and give them up just to be a martyr.
I went to my first book burning when I was 13 years old at the church my whole extended family attended. Teens were encouraged to destroy any "worldly" books, movies, music or anything else that "god" might be offended by and I find it odd how all these same people are now shouting to the heavens about how bad it is when others deem their propaganda as offensive.
I'm sure its a scary thing when the world starts to consider what you believe to be toxic. But let's not pretend that "When Harry became Sally" is anything but pure propaganda. Their "research" was contributed to just two "scholars". They gave no time in the publication to opposing or contesting research. That is not how science works.
Also how do you contend with your beliefs that people don't have to bake cakes but yet they do have to sell books? Because those seem really at odds to me.
If this bothers you, do as Amazon and eBay have done, then exercise your personal right of association to do business with someone else. Unless you are interested in setting up a "Ministry of Compelled Trade" to circumvent a "Ministry of Social Behavior", like every other participant in our market, Vote with Your Dollars.
Complaining about "Cancel Culture" isn't going to do a damn thing to convince Amazon and eBay to relist these items, but you spending your money elsewhere will.
For what it's worth, you can find "banned" Seuss books over at ABE Books:
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=9780394844947&n=100121503&cm_sp=mbc-_-ISBN-_-used
And if you don't want to support ABE Books (being an Amazon company and all), get to your local bookstore to see if you can send some dollars their way. I'm sure they would appreciate it.
I think you’re missing the point.
Please elaborate then.
All I'm seeing is a lot of learned helplessness when it comes to commercial venues declining to carry some works. (This is not new - Walmart's been "censoring" content for decades in its brick-and-mortar establishments.) You write as as if becoming a "dissident" is something new, yet you've done it yourself with this publication.
As for handing too much power to Them (the faceless Big Tech gulag masters), you're making the same mistake that other conservatives do around Big Tech and that's to assume that FB et al. are eternal and we're stuck with them. "They" only get to decide when you *let* them.
As for being "cancelled" at your job should your private conversations become known more widely - this is nothing new either. Unless you live in Montana or belong to a decent union, you're likely subject to at-will employment.
I appreciate what you're trying to say here, but complaining about how the world is unfair (and has been for decades) isn't going to improve anything. If you don't like it, lobby for better labor laws (where you can't be fired for activity independent of your job), buy your books from markets that don't refuse to carry books for "Woke" reasons, and find better online services to communicate with your friends and family. (Facebook didn't spring out of the Big Bang fully formed and also isn't likely to remain dominant indefinitely.) If you have problems with the network effects that Facebook (and other companies) have created, so that it's hard for your circle to move elsewhere, lobby your federal representatives for laws mandating personal data property rights (including the right to take your data elsewhere, a la Europe's GDPR) and for reinvigorated antitrust enforcement so that we avoid the situation in the future where a company can sustain off a walled garden of users instead of interoperating with other companies with other approaches and philosophies.
There are a ton of actions that can be taken today to improve the state of what ails us, but everyone wants to pretend that they're Solzhenitsyn, when they're a good bit more powerful and have more access to levers to change things than Aleksandr had in his Soviet penal colony. Your political opponents aren't shy using those levers - don't unilaterally disarm and give them up just to be a martyr.
I went to my first book burning when I was 13 years old at the church my whole extended family attended. Teens were encouraged to destroy any "worldly" books, movies, music or anything else that "god" might be offended by and I find it odd how all these same people are now shouting to the heavens about how bad it is when others deem their propaganda as offensive.
I'm sure its a scary thing when the world starts to consider what you believe to be toxic. But let's not pretend that "When Harry became Sally" is anything but pure propaganda. Their "research" was contributed to just two "scholars". They gave no time in the publication to opposing or contesting research. That is not how science works.
Also how do you contend with your beliefs that people don't have to bake cakes but yet they do have to sell books? Because those seem really at odds to me.