Twitter was on fire yesterday after a prominent blogger uncovered something horrifying.  How she found it, I don’t know.  On Amazon.com’s Kindle store, where Amazon sells their published e-books, was a self-published how-to guide for pedophiles. Entitled The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct by an author named Philip R. Greaves II, the book caused a huge problem for Amazon, who relented and pulled the book from publication shortly after its presence was discovered.  Secondary to this, the book also kicked off one of the most lively discussions of free speech and free enterprise that I’ve seen.

Graves described his book, in the product description, as “”my attempt to make pedophile situations safer for those juveniles that find themselves involved in them, by establishing certian [sic] rules for these adults to follow.  I hope to achieve this by appealing to the better nature of pedosexuals, with hope that their doing so will result in less hatred and perhaps liter [sic] sentences should they ever be caught.”  He has three other e-books for sale on Amazon, all published within the last week.

That Amazon relented should surprise no one.  After all, they’re a business, and things that get a business protested are things like open support for pedophiles.  Not that Amazon showed any support for pedophiles or the book itself; they simply sold the book without passing judgment on its content (which is what all the protesters did since I guarantee you 99.9 percent of them didn’t look past the front cover.  Not that I support the book or its content at all, but I have serious doubts Amazon even knew of the book, let alone its content.

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