Oh no some public schools won't be stocking boy-on-boy blowjob comic books for kids...!
But let's ignore the Biden Administration leaning on the world's biggest bookseller to keep all adults from buying books whose messages Biden's Stasi find inconvenient and Unapproved.
The Biden administration pressured Amazon to censor books related to COVID-19 vaccines in early 2021 citing concerns that the material contained "propaganda" and "misinformation," internal company emails released by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) appear to show.
The documents were obtained by the House Judiciary Committee and the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government via subpoena, Jordan said in a X thread Monday, which he dubbed, "THE AMAZON FILES."
"Who can we talk to about the high levels of propaganda and misinformation and disinformation of [sic] Amazon?" Andrew Slavitt, a former White House senior advisor for COVID-19 response, wrote to the online retailer in a March 2, 2021, email, released by Jordan.
"If you search for 'vaccines' under books, I see what comes up," Slavitt wrote in a follow up message that same day. "I haven't looked beyond that but if that's what's on the surface, it's concerning."
Amazon officials initially balked at performing "a manual intervention" to remove certain book titles from appearing, arguing that it would be "too visible" and lead to further scrutiny.
"We will not be doing a manual intervention today," an email between Amazon executives reads. "The team/PR feels very strongly that it is too visible, and will further compound the Harry/Sally narrative (which is getting the Fox News treatment today apparently), and won't fix the problem long-term ... because of customer behavior associates."
The Amazon officials, whose name is redacted from the email, then notes that another individual at the company, whose name is also redacted, "gave very direct guidance to the teams to be boring and not do anything that is visible and will draw more attention."
The email states that a tweak to the bookseller's website that would redirect more customers searching certain keywords to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website was in the works and that a screenshot of that change should be sent to the White House, but it warned employees to play coy with the Biden administration about potential further actions.
More at the link.
A Meta Oversight Board member whined that the platform's election-interfering 2020 censorship was "not enough."
Despite a widely cited Media Research Center poll showing that Big Tech censorship altered 2020 presidential election results, Meta Oversight Board member Pamela San Martín claimed Facebook's censorship was not sufficient. San Martín called for more censorship in a January interview with WIRED. She not only demanded increased censorship but announced that the Board has made a "lot of the decisions and the case selection" with the 2024 election in mind. She also urged Meta to strike "preemptively" for its election censorship.
San Martín's suggestions for Meta include "adding labels to posts that are related to elections, directing people to reliable information, prohibiting paid advertisement when it calls into question the legitimacy of elections, and implementing WhatsApp forward limits." Her advice to coordinate with election officials seems to be a direct encouragement toward tech-government censorship collusion.
"No election is exactly the same as the previous one," San Martín confessed. "So even though we're addressing the problems that arose in prior elections as a starting point, it is not enough."
More at the link.
By the way, Andrew Slavitt is ignoring subpoenas demanding he testify about his direct involvement in all phases of covid censorship.
The White House just prosecuted Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro for refusing to comply with a subpoena -- and got him sentenced to four months imprisonment -- but is actively scheming with Andy Slavitt on how to dodge his own subpoenas.