So, I tried to set up some advertising for Tier Zero via Amazon Marketing Services. Here’s what I got from them in the mail:
The first part says the ad for Amazon’s website was approved. Then, further down, it says:
“Unfortunately, your ad campaign has not been approved to run on Kindle E-readers for the following reason(s):
This ad contains an image of a realistic firearm, or a firearm pointed at the reader or a character, or a firearm being used. “
Needless to say, this raises a lot of questions. I’m not going to ask them of anyone at Amazon due to personal experience with the company and their selective enforcement of TOS.
Exhibit A: a realistic firearm depicted (in this case) on the cover of an audiobook. Obviously a threat to democracy!
This incident indicates that, sooner or later, Amazon is going to follow the lead of Goolag; FascistBorg; Twitland and CommieTube, completely purging all Thought Criminals who challenge The Narrative in any way. It’s not completely converged yet, but the clock is ticking. Today they’re not allowing book cover images in a paid advertisement which might “trigger” some opportunistic snowflake or professional victim. Tomorrow they might decide that a book cover with a firearm on it constitutes some kind of “threat,” or “hate” directed at some victim identity demographic, and de-platform the author altogether. (This policy would be selectively enforced, of course.)
Exhibit B: Holy triggered microagressions, Bat-Person! The original cover, on the paperback, is even worse! Not only are firearms being used, but if a reader or character stands to the left or right of the cover image, the firearms would be pointed right at them! It’s enough to make a Florida sheriff’s deputy hide behind a patrol car!
As Amazon becomes more of a monopoly, there’s less that non-leftist, non-SJW authors will be able to do about it.
Sound like a crackpot “conspiracy theory”? So does rejecting paid advertisement for a work of fiction because there’s a “realistic firearm” in the cover image.
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