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Now that the dust has settled, I'm 99% sure that my books were banned from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo because of direct lobbying from the SPLC.
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Game's rising sales was the most proximal trigger.
These are good instincts. But Amazon still sells most Roosh books. Follow the money. HarperCollins and (((Neil Strauss))) AMOGed the books.
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A traditional publisher is liable if it puts out a book that violates copyright. But Amazon is protected from the same fate by federal law as long as it removes the offending content.
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Beyond the title’s similarity, HarperCollins contended that seduction concepts from Obama’s Game originated in Strauss’s best-selling memoir The Game and companion manual Rules of the Game - alpha male, indirect opener, false time constraint, isolation, and last-minute resistance. But Strauss hesitated: ‘My pick-up material has been copied before. As a controversial author myself, I don’t condone censorship. I just don’t want my brand associated with harassment or coercion.’
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some PUAs are using misogynist marketing tactics or teaching what amounts to harassment.
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen...ng/485525/
https://thinkprogress.org/amazon-removes...6078a41ab/
https://www.neilstrauss.com/neil/the-gam...of-rights/
https://dailystormer.name/the-jews-of-th...-industry/
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/busin...regan.html