<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">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?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I imagine that book censorship is pretty severe in China, but would they reciprocate, and if not, then what?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Is there a dirtier business than politics?  The Mafia, maybe?  bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 12:29 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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>...No bad reviews allowed. At least not on Amazon...<br>
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<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/amazon-agreed-to-scrub-poor-reviews-of-xi-on-chinas-site-7tzgjhmt6" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/amazon-agreed-to-scrub-poor-reviews-of-xi-on-chinas-site-7tzgjhmt6</a><br>
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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.<br>
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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<br>
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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.<br>
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