Re:Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns
by basic612 on Friday June 05, 2020 @04:59PM
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I wonder if this will be noted on the easy blog or on hacker news. It seems that people are too caught up being outraged to notice. Comments made here three hours ago about the book now being available on Amazon are buried under piles of diatribes. Let’s not let the truth get in the way of a good sanctimonious rant.
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Re:Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns
by kelnos on Friday June 05, 2020 @05:59PM
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While I'm not an advocate of piles of diatribes, I think Amazon's ability and desire to censor is a topic still worthy of discussion. If Amazon is in the habit of censoring things it doesn't like unless it gets a lot of bad PR about it, that's a problem.
Re:Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns
by ponker on Friday June 05, 2020 @06:02PM
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Amazon’s ban is a problem even if they reversed it due to publicity. It means that this is going on even when you don’t hear about it.
Re:Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns
by basic612 on Saturday June 06, 2020 @12:02AM
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Does stating that they will not offer for sale amount to a ban?
I wonder if Amazon would have reversed their original decision on more detailed review, without the publicity you speak of. Are we sure that the blog post or this discourse are the causes that effected the book being offered for sale in the end?
I would have read the blog post and HN comments with less skepticism if there was evidence that Amazon had continued to refuse to sell the book after multiple submissions and signs of human / managerial interaction in the process on their part.