Bokhari: GOP Lawmakers Shouldn’t Let Amazon Off the Hook for Censorship

Amazon founder and CEO (and owner of the far-left Washington Post) Jeff Bezos is set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee next week, alongside the heads of Google, Facebook and Apple, over growing antitrust concerns about the tech giants.

Republican lawmakers — at least those Republican lawmakers who haven’t been bought and paid for by the tech giants — also have another pressing concern, one that their base won’t let them ignore: political censorship.

The tech giants don’t just manipulate their platforms to exclude commercial competitors; they exclude ideological ones as well. Much of the focus in this regard has been on Facebook, Twitter and Google — but Amazon, the world’s dominant online retailer, has also, to use Google’s terminology, “shifted towards censorship.”

The tech giant is a digital book-burner, censoring books it considers to be too politically controversial, including criticism of Islam.