Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
by hunter2_ on Saturday December 19, 2020 @11:34AM
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Tons of advertising includes only glowing reviews/testimonials and it has been going on with newspapers, television, etc. forever. I can't imagine similar selectivity being illegal on websites merely because it's presented in a way that implies (but does not explicitly say) that they're faithfully reproducing everything that has been submitted in good faith.
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Re:Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews
by rebuilder on Saturday December 19, 2020 @03:24PM
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My argument here is that product reviews become more like advertising once they start being edited or selected for marketing purposes. So e.g. Amazon's reviews do not appear to be advertising, which would make it misleading to bias them in some way. And the rules for what's acceptable in advertising might be different from what's acceptable in providing a neutral forum for customer reviews.