Israel to Amazon: Stop selling Holocaust-denying literature

[HAB911]

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israel-amazon-stop-selling-holocaust-denying-literature-45746218

[Else You Are Mad]

1. I hate holocaust deniers...

But we do not want to start burning the books of those we don't agree with. If you don't agree with a book, don't buy it. We do not want to start preventing someone from selling books we don't agree with or despise -- because then our opponents will start to come after us in the same manner.

[Adrahil]

3. I don't think it's that simple....

Refusing to facilitate the sale of a book is NOT the same as preventing it's sale.

If I were in charge of Amazon, there is no way I would be selling books that promoted that point of view, just like if I own a sporting goods store, I don't have to sell guns.

[nycbos]

4. It's not burning books.

It an agreement to not sell it. A privately owned book store owner can choose what to sell and not to sell. If an owner notices that mysteries are the hottest selling item he or she will probably make room for more mysteries at the expense of some other items.

[still_one]

2. An interesting issue of free speech. One view is that it incites the recent anti-Jewish incidents,

the other that it is simply an exercise in free speech

does this relate to the current alt-right administration who wants to ban any media outlets that criticize it?

[heaven05]

6. anti-jewish "incidents"

are perpetrated by and large by the ignorant and hateful among us. The alt-right has been and is inciting this hate. Whether the 'denier books' of the Holocaust are sold on Amazon, they will be sold on 'hate radio and internet by a multitude of sources. Won't stop the hate if Amazon forced to stop selling the books. Wrong focus on this attack. Hate radio and internet perps must be destroyed.

[still_one]

8. I agree with your assessment. A similar free speech argument will be applied to hate

radio. When does it cross the line, or does it ever?

[heaven05]

9. Yes, they have the right to hate

and voice that hate anywhere, anytime they please. Yet the hate radio of today along with the internet crosses the line when one of it's listeners or hate filled social media mavens crosses the line and violently acts out the scenarios intimated as being a solution on hate radio and described in social media. Yes, a huge conundrum.

[jehop61]

5. Holocaust deniers are deplorable

HOWEVER, No government has the right to tell a private company what books to sell. Censorship plain and simple.

[Behind the Aegis]

10. No government did.

The title of the article is misleading. It was the Holocaust Museum in Israel, Yad Vashem, which asked, for a second time. While I understand their position, and have no problem with them asking, I don't like to see "blacklists" of what is and isn't acceptable for sale.

[Calculating]

7. Freedom of speach

If you don't agree with it don't buy the books. It's that simple. Any actual holocaust deniers would just be emboldened by laws banning the sale of the books. They would claim it was part of a big conspiracy or something.