The Republican Study Committee, a caucus including over 70 per cent of all Republican House members, accused Amazon of “censorship” for removing books by Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, a clinical psychologist who advocated for conversion therapy. Also on Friday, Netflix sent a cease-and-desist to Boston’s Straight Pride event, asking its organizers to remove the company from its list of “prospective corporate sponsors.” (Vice News, Business Insider)

Talking point: This isn’t the first time Republican lawmakers have made censorship claims against a tech giant, but expands the complaints to Amazon, the biggest company in the world by market value. U.S. President Donald Trump has claimed that Facebook, Google and Twitter are biased against Republicans. In May, the White House launched a tool to report censorship on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter. Last week, Trump hosted a social media summit with some 200 conservative groups, but did not invite any of the tech giants themselves. On Monday, Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission, ahead of a U.S. Senate hearing on Tuesday, asking it to probe how tech giants curate content on their platforms. Republicans repeated the censorship claims at that hearing, threatening federal legislation in response.