House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan’s latest drop of (R-OH) Amazon Files uncovered that the Big Tech giant suppressed at least 43 books at the behest of President Joe Biden’s administration.
The third installment of The Amazon Files, released Friday, revealed that the Biden administration pressured tech giant Amazon to censor vaccine-critical books that came out even before the COVID-19 vaccine. “Under the guise of combatting ‘anti-vaccine’ misinformation, Amazon censored everything from picture books for children to books criticizing Big Pharma,” Jordan wrote in an X post.
Jordan shared screenshots of internal emails at Amazon revealing that employees “create[d] a new [Do Not Promote] class for anti-vax books.” The employee added, “The impetus for this request is criticism from the Biden administration about sensitive books we’re giving prominent placement to, and should be handled urgently.” The emails further show a discussion about whether books should be “remove[d] from sale” since they were often sought out by name rather than being discovered by general searches.
Amazon provided the names of the 43 books that made their way onto this “Do Not Promote” list when it responded to a subpoena from Jordan’s House Judiciary Committee. The list included a children’s book released in the fall of 2019 titled What Are Vaccines? by Amber Rae Johnson. The author wrote the book in response to the harsh criticism children and families receive for choosing not to take vaccines. In the Amazon description, the author wrote that the book “promotes love, understanding, and kindness to everyone.”
Other blacklisted books included The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child (2011) by Dr. Robert W. Sears and Miller’s Review of Critical Vaccines Studies: 400 Important Scientific Papers Summarized for Parents and Researchers (2016) by medical research journalist Neil Z. Miller. As Jordan put it in an X post, “There is nothing the Biden Admin and the elites hate more than parents making their own decisions about their children’s education, health, and values.”
Jordan honed in on the idea that the Biden administration used the alleged threat of fast-spreading viral information as an excuse to silence opposing views. “Don’t let the Biden Admin tell you that their censorship campaign was about concerns of misinformation going viral on social media. They were going after BOOKS too,” he wrote. “This is—and always has been—about suppressing disfavored views, not purported challenges of new technologies.”
Jordan called this “unconstitutional government censorship, full stop.” He added that “Whether you agree with this speech or not, free speech is free speech and the Biden Admin pressured private companies to censor constitutionally protected speech.”
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