[ExI] china and Hillary

[William Flynn Wallace]

Amazon book reviews as political weapons or a form of concession to a
foreign power.  Do we think the State Dept. or White House put pressure on
Amazon?

I imagine that book censorship is pretty severe in China, but would they
reciprocate, and if not, then what?

Is there a dirtier business than politics?  The Mafia, maybe?  bill w

On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 12:29 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> ...> On Behalf Of Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat
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> >...No bad reviews allowed. At least not on Amazon...
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> https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/amazon-agreed-to-scrub-poor-reviews-of-xi-on-chinas-site-7tzgjhmt6
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> >...----------begin excerpt------------------ "Amazon quietly removed
> criticism of President Xi’s books by scrubbing bad reviews, ratings and
> comments from its Chinese site, it has emerged.
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> >...The US retail giant agreed to Beijing’s demand to have anything below
> a five-star review of Xi Jinping’s book The Governance of China removed
> from Amazon.cn about two years ago...Stuart LaForge
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> We find out two years after the fact Amazon sculptures reviews.  This
> suggests they are doing that with other books and authors as well.
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