http://www.darkcoding.net/society/amazon-cuts-negative-reviews/ Solvitas perambulum Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:21:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.darkcoding.net/society/amazon-cuts-negative-reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-2647 Tomalak Geret'kal Thu, 06 Apr 2006 23:50:12 +0000 http://www.darkcoding.net/society/amazon-cuts-negative-reviews/#comment-2647 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. 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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