Posts Tagged ‘censorship’
amazonfail – 10 unanswered questions
If you’ve been asleep for the last two days, there’s a very handy #amazonfail flowchart over at the National Coalition Against Censorship to help you catch up.
But it’s over now, right? Amazon have said it was an error, they’re fixing it, it’s dropped from the top 10 trending topics on Twitter – get over it [...]
amazonfail = PRfail
My favourite quote of the day comes from Amazon de-ranked author Gore Vidal:
“Why don’t they just burn the books? They’d be better off and it’s very visual on television.”
I still can’t quite believe that lovely, liberal Seattle-based Amazon would go in for the sort of virtual book burning we have seen at the weekend – [...]
An open letter to Jeff Bezos
Dear Jeff,
I don’t know if you use Twitter, but you might be aware of something called #amazonfail, currently the most talked-about topic among the network of 5m+ users. This is an online expression of dismay at Amazon’s new and apparently discriminatory censorship policy.
If the version circulating on the Internet is correct, your new policy of [...]
amazonfail – 10 unanswered questions
If you’ve been asleep for the last two days, there’s a very handy #amazonfail flowchart over at the National Coalition Against Censorship to help you catch up.
But it’s over now, right? Amazon have said it was an error, they’re fixing it, it’s dropped from the top 10 trending topics on Twitter – get over it [...]
amazonfail = PRfail
My favourite quote of the day comes from Amazon de-ranked author Gore Vidal:
“Why don’t they just burn the books? They’d be better off and it’s very visual on television.”
I still can’t quite believe that lovely, liberal Seattle-based Amazon would go in for the sort of virtual book burning we have seen at the weekend – [...]
An open letter to Jeff Bezos
Dear Jeff,
I don’t know if you use Twitter, but you might be aware of something called #amazonfail, currently the most talked-about topic among the network of 5m+ users. This is an online expression of dismay at Amazon’s new and apparently discriminatory censorship policy.
If the version circulating on the Internet is correct, your new policy of [...]
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