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Amid outrage Amazon pulls pedophilia book
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November 13, 2010, Saturday
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AMAZON has pulled an electronic book about pedophilia from its online store after complaints and a boycott threat.
The book, "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct," by Philip R. Greaves II, went on sale on October 28 and cost US$4.79 to download.
Amazon initially defended the book's publication in a statement but later withdrew it from its online store after a campaign against it spread on Twitter, Facebook and other media. Protesters circulated a message through social networking sites that said: "Protect Children. Boycott Amazon."
Colleen Curtis, a mother who works as a director of sales and marketing for a mutual fund company in Mississauga, Canada, circulated the protest message to her friends on Facebook. Pedophilia is a crime, not a sexual preference and should not be covered by freedom of speech, she said.
"I am morally and ethically disgusted by the content and by Amazon's poor judgment and complete lack of remorse at making this information available to the public," she said.
The book title appeared on the website on Thursday but a later message read: "We're sorry. The web address you entered is not a functioning page on our site."
There was no comment from Seattle-based Amazon.
The book, "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct," by Philip R. Greaves II, went on sale on October 28 and cost US$4.79 to download.
Amazon initially defended the book's publication in a statement but later withdrew it from its online store after a campaign against it spread on Twitter, Facebook and other media. Protesters circulated a message through social networking sites that said: "Protect Children. Boycott Amazon."
Colleen Curtis, a mother who works as a director of sales and marketing for a mutual fund company in Mississauga, Canada, circulated the protest message to her friends on Facebook. Pedophilia is a crime, not a sexual preference and should not be covered by freedom of speech, she said.
"I am morally and ethically disgusted by the content and by Amazon's poor judgment and complete lack of remorse at making this information available to the public," she said.
The book title appeared on the website on Thursday but a later message read: "We're sorry. The web address you entered is not a functioning page on our site."
There was no comment from Seattle-based Amazon.
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