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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I was so impressed with the description of the Changs and their unique interpretation of Christian morality that I thought I’d share a couple of their good works right here, including:

1.  Keeping their prices low by forcing American workers to endure sweatshop conditions, then filing defamation lawsuits against those workers when they protest their horrible working conditions.

2.  Ripping off designs from high end designers and then selling low-cost knockoffs in their store.  So much for that whole “thou shalt not steal” thing, eh?

I just wish that there were more charitable Christians out there like the Changs who are willing to eschew ostentation and follow the example Jesus set by living in an $8.5 million home that was built on the sweat and tears of exploited workers and stolen intellectual property.

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