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The World Economic Forum's Klaus Schwab REALLY Cannot Take a Joke [UPDATED]
Amazon removed my ChatGPT-written parody insect recipe book and banned me from the platform for life after receiving a complaint from Schwab's WEF - this is my story...
UPDATE: For the third time Amazon KDP has permanently terminated my account removing dozens of my books from the platform. Amazon removed my account once again after I republished my insect cookbook despite removing the subtitle where I dare to say it was ‘inspired’ by the World Economic Forum. I spent quite a bit of time writing my insect cookbook so I republished it after changing the title and removing all mentions of the WEF. Evidently, it STILL pissed off Klaus Schwab as Amazon notified me this weekend that my account was being permanently removed once again. Given the fact that Amazon controls almost 90% of the book market in the world, getting your books banned from Amazon is basically like having all of your books burned all at once. FWIW Amazon never explained why they deleted my account previously nor why they restored it. I pray they will restore it again.
In honor of the 2023 World Economic Forum in Davos, I decided to use ChatGPT to write a parody insect cookbook titled Mrs. Schwab’s New World Order Cookbook • Insect Recipes Inspired by the World Economic Forum. It took me an afternoon to complete and I thought it was quite funny. When I was thinking about a good title for the book I was actually concerned about infringing on the World Economic Forum’s trademark. And as a result, I was careful not to create any confusion indicating only that the insect recipes were ‘inspired’ by the World Economic Forum. Despite that, the WEF contacted Amazon and claimed my cookbook violated their trademark - a claim I vehemently deny to this day.
Klaus Schwab and his cronies at the World Economic Forum are famous for explaining that humans will eventually need to move to insect-based diets hence I thought it would be funny to release an insect recipe cookbook ahead of Davos. Klaus Schwab ‘Eat Ze Bugs’ memes are very common on Reddit and Twitter so I didn’t imagine the WEF would get too bent out of shape by my parody cookbook if I was careful not to create any confusion - the sort of confusion that the parody t-shirt seen below might create (even though I think the chance of confusion is close to zero):
In an effort to achieve my goal of creating a funny parody cookbook without infringing on the World Economic Forum’s trademark, I created a fictional author named ‘Mrs. Schwab’ and merely explained in the subtitle that the recipes were ‘inspired’ by the World Economic Forum. I thought I was safe and published the book using Amazon’s KDP platform as I had dozens of times before.
Several weeks passed and after ordering a few author copies for friends and family and even selling a few here in the US and a number in the EU I awoke to find that my Amazon KDP account had been permanently deleted. I received a note from Amazon explaining that the WEF contacted them and claimed I had infringed on their trademark. As a result, Amazon removed the title as well as 50 other titles I had published on the platform over the years. Amazon explained that I had been permanently banned from KDP and I would not be permitted to open a new account - it was a lifetime ban - the death penalty by order of Klaus Schwab.
I appealed Amazon’s decision and the trademark/copyright group told me I’d need to get the WEF to agree that I had not infringed to restore my account. The generic KDP account group read my appeal and reviewed my other titles (things like Biden’s Big Book of War, Biden’s Art of War, and Biden’s Classified Notebook) and they immediately decided I was a MAGA Republican and explained that the decision was final and that I would never get my account back. I reached out to a few members of congress who seem to be interested in all things censorship but never heard back. But before I had time to reach out again I received an email from Amazon that my account had been restored as long as I didn’t publish the insect cookbook. No explanation.
I decided to update the title and cover of the cookbook to Mrs. Cavatica's Edible Insect Cookbook: Bug Recipes that will Make Your Mouth Water - sadly losing the parody and the joke. Ironically, it is actually selling (a little) as a normal insect recipe cookbook (gross). I think it might be the FIRST cookbook written entirely using ChatGPT (let me know if I am right). Hopefully, I’ll have the last laugh - take that Klaus…