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Abigail Shrier
Personal blog · abigailshrier.substack.compoliticsculture
Abigail Shrier writes The Truth Fairy, a personal blog at abigailshrier.substack.com about politics and culture. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Book Banning in an Age of Amazon”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link her Substack for her account of book removals and censorship, including Amazon and eBay delisting titles. The linked posts cover book bans and retailer censorship.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
An occasional newsletter devoted to contemporary blasphemies.
Most-linked posts?
- Book Banning in an Age of Amazon3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-05
- How Activist Teachers Recruit Kids2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-17
What Hacker News says?
Amazon is censoring books now too: https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/book-banning-in-an-age-...
Comment linking /p/book-banning-in-an-age-of-amazon
on “Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay”Submitted What I told the students of Princeton as a story · 71 points
HN discussionThere have been many attempts to get this book banned at booksellers. The author, Abigail Shriner, wrote about her experience through all this censorship at her Substack: https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/has-censorship-become-o...
Comment linking /p/has-censorship-become-our-baseline
on “A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities”Submitted How Activist Teachers Recruit Kids as a story · 60 points
HN discussionFrom what I’ve heard, Amazon’s internal politics and culture has become as influenced by far left activism as the other big tech companies. This particular book ban is just the latest visible symptom of their bias. Like all other powerful institutions that have been taken over by ideologues, they cannot be trusted with the power they have. Moderate leftists, centrists, and conservatives should be highly cautious of…
Comment linking /p/book-banning-in-an-age-of-amazon
on “Amazon won't sell books framing LGBTQ+ identities as mental illness”Submitted Book Banning in an Age of Amazon as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted Activist Teachers Recruit Kids as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Harvard Psychiatrist Explains Our Social Justice 'Worriers' as a story · 3 points
HN discussion