The left loves to crow about how conservatives ban books, equating the removal of gay pornography from elementary school libraries to the Nazi book burnings of the 1930s. But one look at their real-life practices, and you’ll see that the liberals are the real book banners of our time. Amazon, run by notably left-of-center executives, has a history of banning books that they don’t want the public to have easy access to. The latest of these books was Mark Dice’s bestseller, The War on Conservatives, which was recently banned from the site but then restored after the company received backlash.
In his YouTube video discussing the ban, Dice, an independent media analyst, explained that the book “wasn't just banned. It was dumped down the memory hole, preventing [him] from listing copies, preventing anybody who read the book from listing used copies for sale on the Amazon marketplace, deleting the thousands of five-star ratings, the hundreds of written reviews, making it as if the book just never even existed.”
Dice’s book details how “Conservatives are under attack on numerous different fronts by a well-funded, highly organized Marxist movement. The war is being waged in the public schools and universities, in corporate America, the media, and in the streets.”
From that description, it’s hard to see how Amazon could ban the book, which had thousands of five-star reviews and reached number four on the overall bestseller list, on the grounds that “the content might result in a disappointing customer experience,” which was all the justification that Amazon’s Executive Customer Relations Department gave in response to Dice’s appeal.
Dice then reached out to conservative news outlet The Daily Caller, who asked Amazon for comment. Shortly thereafter, The War on Conservatives was restored to the site.
“This title was removed in error and is now available for sale,” Amazon’s spokesperson told The Caller.
In a statement to NewsBusters, Dice said, “I think the book came to the attention of someone at Amazon who was personally and ideologically opposed to its content. Between the title, the cover art, and the arguments presented in the book, they decided it shouldn't be allowed on the platform and decided to ban it.”
Adding: “When Amazon first banned the book, I assumed it had to be some kind of mistake that would be corrected through the normal appeals process. But when they rejected my initial appeal, it became obvious this wasn't simply an automated error or the result of a bot mistakenly flagging the book.”
It wasn’t just new copies. “It wasn't just delisted. They banned the book. They deleted the listing with several thousand five-star ratings and hundreds of written reviews, and even deleted the used copies that third-party sellers had listed for sale,” he explained.
Dice was very direct with his thoughts about Amazon’s excuse: “Amazon's claim that the book was removed because of an "error" is beyond ridiculous. Quite frankly, they’re full of shit.”
We in the conservative movement have seen this song and dance before from big companies like Amazon and Google, who continuously try to repress and silence our voices on the public stage.
Amazon infamously banned the 1973 French dystopian novel The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail, about Indian migrants moving to France and destabilizing Western society. They also banned Ryan T. Anderson’s 2025 book When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment. In both cases, and also in Dice’s, Amazon quickly caved and restored the books after public backlash.
Amazon very rarely delists books promoting a leftist agenda. If they did, you could imagine the outcry that would come from the liberals and their media. They would do what they’re currently trying with CBS and Bari Weiss, attacking a company for supposedly repressing their views.
So, the next time the left accuses the right of banning books and attacking free speech, just remember which side celebrated shooting a man in the neck just for engaging in civil debate.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
Mark Dice YouTube, "Amazon Banned My Book!"
7/1/26
0:00 - 4:04MARK DICE: Well, my book, The War on Conservatives, which came out in November 2023 and immediately broke into the Amazon Top 10 Bestseller list, reaching number four, was banned by the book giant two weeks ago. Stay tuned and I'll explain why.
I'm just going public with it now. It wasn't just banned. It was dumped down the memory hole, preventing me from listing copies, preventing anybody who read the book from listing used copies for sale on the Amazon marketplace, deleting the thousands of five-star ratings, the hundreds of written reviews, making it as if the book just never even existed. Luckily, the listing and all that information was saved in the internet archive, the Wayback Machine.
And so I came up with a four-stage plan to try to help Amazon do what was right and stop censoring my book. And so phase one was just appealing the ban.
They sent me an email and they said, "We recently reviewed your book and we found it violates our content policy."
And so I wrote a very detailed, very friendly and professional appeal, which they then denied. And so then I found the CEO's email address which is public. And so I sent another, second appeal to him that was then forwarded to the Amazon executive review team and they then later emailed me, said that they conducted their own review and they were upholding the ban.
The only explanation they gave was a ridiculous lie saying that it might be causing a ‘disappointing customer experience.’
So then I moved on to phase two and started reaching out to my contacts in the media.
And big shout out to The Daily Caller which wrote this great article, ‘Amazon Delists Conservative YouTuber's Book Over Potentially ‘Disappointing Customer Experience,’ Then Claims Error,’ and goes into the details.
Now, I'm going to leave this article linked up in the description and in the comments below. Copy and paste this article and tweet it to all of the big news outlets in the media and the conservative media, all the big podcasters, all the big YouTubers because apparently none of the conservative media outlets other than the Daily Caller care about little old me, because they were the only one, at least so far, that published this story.
It wasn't until this journalist reached out to Amazon's PR team or their media relations department asking for a quote and an explanation of why they're banning another book, another bestseller, that they miraculously discovered that they had just made a mistake.
It was just a little error because, well, they knew that it was about to turn into a big news story.
Just like when they banned The Camp of the Saints, I think it was about a month ago when the book came back into print in English. They banned that. That's a novel from the '70s in France about how a bunch of migrants - million migrants or so, travel to France and ruin the culture there. So that's offensive. That's xenophobic. That got dumped down the memory hole, too.
But then after social media and some media outcry, they just miraculously realized they made a mistake and reinstated it.
And of course, the liberal media was very upset once that book came back into print. The Atlantic complained that 'The Return of MAGA’s Favorite Forbidden Book' is just absolutely terrible.
And then they banned When Harry Became Sally back in 2021. That made some headlines. Even Ted Cruz started tweeting about it. It's a book that's critical of the gender bending agenda. And then, miraculously, last year, they reinstated it after the media pressure had died down. And then they issued a statement saying that they had re-evaluated it. They, you know, once construed it as 'hate speech.'
So probably what happened is some executive at Amazon probably realized that one of their children came down with the woke mind virus and then realized 'You know what? Maybe we should actually allow books on the world's biggest bookstore to actually discuss these issues.'
