Book Burning 2.0

Have you been feeling the urge to get together with some of your best friends and burn literature that you know is an abomination before the Lord your God?  Do you really want to stick it to Steinbeck in the old fashioned Fahrenheit 451 way, but your city council refuses to give you a permit for burning pornographic literature in a public area?  Are you of the firm belief that people should get all of their smut, sex, and pornographic thrills from the book of Genesis like God intended?

Well boy are you in luck today.  There’s a new online bookseller in town.  Abunga.com is their name, and censorship based on the ignorant ravings of the masses is their game.  The problem is, people who are buying from sites such as Amazon.com are actually unwittingly supporting the evils of Internet pornography with each one of their purchases.  Of course porn is estimated to be the source of roughly 80-90% of all online revenue, so I suppose it was only a matter of time before Amazon got into the business.  Don’t believe me?  Just ask Abunga’s chairman, Lee Martin:

“Many consumers are unaware that by purchasing books from these major online retailers, they are unknowingly supporting the growing Internet pornography industry.”

“In addition, people should not have to worry that they – or their spouse or children – may be one book search away from unwanted materials when shopping for books on the Web.”

Yes, because everyone is well aware that Amazon donates at least 10% of their proceeds to Bangbus and other similar sites.  And I’m sure we’ve all had that embarrassing experience where we were checking the price on the Complete Calvin & Hobbes when our browser was suddenly redirected to backdoorsluts9.com.  Please.

So Abunga allows people to censor books that they find indecent, and if enough people censor a book then the site removes it from its catalog and presumably gives those sales back to the hedonistic porn-mongers over at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.  I have to commend this guy for finding a way to cash in on conservative Christian paranoia, but at the same time it makes me sad that there is actually a market out there for people who have more fun censoring great literature than reading it.

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