http://www.darkcoding.net/society/amazon-cuts-negative-reviews/ Solvitas perambulum Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:12:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.darkcoding.net/society/amazon-cuts-negative-reviews/#comment-830 Tomalak Geret'kal Thu, 06 Apr 2006 23:50:12 +0000 http://www.darkcoding.net/society/amazon-cuts-negative-reviews/#comment-830 <p>The article you link to is interesting enough, and I have no doubt that such censorship does go on on the internet -- Amazon in particular -- but whilst reading Brian's story I couldn't help but feel that he was, indeed, missing the point of a book review somewhat. Which is a shame because in theory I would be on his side. But I just didn't get the impression that he really understood what the reasons were behind the removal of his reviews.</p> The article you link to is interesting enough, and I have no doubt that such censorship does go on on the internet — Amazon in particular — but whilst reading Brian’s story I couldn’t help but feel that he was, indeed, missing the point of a book review somewhat. Which is a shame because in theory I would be on his side. But I just didn’t get the impression that he really understood what the reasons were behind the removal of his reviews.

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