You May Not Want To Buy Books/Movies/Films From Amazon...

[McCarver]

deannazandt.com/2009/04/14/amazonfail-it-was-the-french-seriously-or-how-not-to-handle-a-social-media-rampage/

[pryt]

who cares ? =)

[McCarver]

Seems the Guardian have caught onto this, good on you shrewd reporters, it looked like all the mainstream media was fooled for a while..
guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/apr/13/amazon-gay-writers

[McCarver]

Originally Posted by pryt

who cares ? =)

Anyone who cares about free speech and the tendency of businesses to attempt to whitewash as an accident or "glitch" any policy or actions that are unpopular...

[pryt]

if you care about "free speech" and "whitewashing" -> move to mars ... since there's no freedom on earth, not even in our "free" western world, censorship on every corner even in the "free" media


and well, amazon, who needs "rankings" ? if i want a book then i get it by searching it directly ... and until now i found every book i was looking for on amazon, even some old 70's russian science fiction books, which are somehow the best =)

[McCarver]

I know, I know, but if you give up caring or trying you might as well give up on life. It always takes a few people to make a stand because others lack the willpower or motivation.

This isn't the first time I've been involved in activism I just don't care about ego and prefer to wander around as a ghost with a different username most places, tho sometimes I'm lazy and leave googlestalk loopholes (hi Brant)

[pryt]

sure, my stuff mostly gets deleted on several forums ... so i don't care anymore , and that's especially on the forum of www.spiegel.de ôô


activism is ok, yes, but if you think about what the result might be, you realize: it won't get better, although something worthy happend today, they've forbidden MON810 to be used in germany , a good start against genetic crap

[lexiconby]

As a group, we need to have a collective action plan. I'm thinking about trying to find a pattern of how Amazon arrived at the list of books targeted.

[McCarver]

hmmm yes this could be a decent place to get together people for class action suit or something, cool to see someone register here a bit surprised forum isn't specifically for amazon but it's as good as place as any I think, I didn't want to use a personal site