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  • Luffy@lemmy.mlOPtoTechnology@lemmy.worldAmazon is changing what is written in books
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    1 day ago

    The controversy you pointed out is about someone who was writing factually false information and feeding hate against people who should be covered under the freedom of speech. The ban happened during his life, and not years after he died. Therefore his works were not a peace of gone culture, but hate in the present of time.

    If I follow your argumentation, that being that you should allow people write false information feeding hate against specific people just living their life in peace, you should be against censoring Hate speech against Lgbtqia+ people too, or the better question would be: where do you draw the line? At Jews? At queer people?





  • Yes, but you say it like the Author himself changed it.

    In the specific Example, the book is from before 2000 and the author is long dead. That book is a piece of culture now, displaying the writing style from a place in time where it was normal to discriminate against people. By changing a book, regardless of if it was actually amazon or just some manager that bought up the rights for the book, it is manipulating the Past. Amazon should not allow to do such things
















  • Luffy@lemmy.mltoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldlisten
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    Reminds me of an Episode of „the rookie” (the response of PDs to acab, that being propaganda)

    In one of the Episodes, a black cop has to ride with a racist dude wanting to kill black people, while the entire department is ignorant of that. Then, in the next episode, the whole PD just suddenly starts being supportive and conspiring against that guy without any convincing having to be done, like someone just flashed a new firmware update on them.

    And that’s not the only episode like that. There’s the wife of a cop who got addicted once, then got into a clinic and got clean, but even now that she’s clean she is still a gangster doing gang work, because even if you have a supporting husband and got clean, gangsters are and will always be gangsters

    Then, there’s that one episode where someone with a disability can’t go to the mental hospital because the family can’t afford it, but there comes the rich capitalist wanting to help the little guy! Also, next episode the family turns out to be wanting to kill the rich capitalist because „They don’t want help because they are the poor family and they want to be poor”

    I could keep going forever.


  • Luffy@lemmy.mltoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldlisten
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    23 days ago

    But, like, really.

    Having police displayed as a cute puppy is the meta of Propaganda.

    1. kids associate the police with a puppy. A puppy is cute. So police = cute
    2. kids are tought that the police is only there to catch Bad criminal who only do things because they are evil. (Because even if you wanted to, you can’t make an episode of a kids show where Timmy the homeless child is arrested by chase the k9 unit by biting off half of their fingers and piercing 2 veines in the process because they stole an apple so their little stray puppy dosent die a gruesome and slow death by starvation, and then is separated from their family)

    Edit: oh BTW forgot that Timmy’s family will also be arrested because they can’t pay for the hospital and the ambulance,so happy ending I guess.