@ArenaCops @petersuber I’m not an American, so I may be off, but I don’t think this specific incident counts as censorship. In this instance they’re saying that they won’t buy the books unless they’re printed the way they like them. The company is free to print them, but they’ll have to sell them elsewhere. It’s market pressure rather than censorship. Which is why the CA letter is so perfect. They’re forcing them to choose a market, and CA is a bigger one.

@cautionwip @ArenaCops @petersuber
You, as a customer, has the right to choose what you consume, be it food, media, or anything else, within the law. Does the, or a, state have the right to decide this however?
This is something that the US, and it’s constitutional right to free expression, are having to deal with.
Now you can have issues with any law you want, but at least they were voted on by the representatives of the people.

@cautionwip @ArenaCops @petersuber
You can ask where was this vote on censorship, and the abridgement of constitutional rights?

@Jodami @ArenaCops @petersuber Ummm..as someone not in the US, as I said, I’m unfamiliar with the finer points. I’m just pointing out that it’s not direct censorship (though it is in practice, obviously). Not quite sure what you were saying there. 🤷🏽

@cautionwip @ArenaCops @petersuber
Me neither, to be honest. I do find the US Constitution darkly amusing, when you consider it was signed by slave owners.

@Jodami @ArenaCops @petersuber Yah, we still have a bloody monarch here and we just re-wrote our constitution 40 years ago. It’s quite embarrassing.