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Originally Posted by abookreader
okay - I see here in post #25 where you speak of Amazon's responsibility to help parent the internet
I see here in post #51, where you want Amazon to share the responsibility in keeping objectionable material out of the hands of kids by making sure they aren't able to download free samples.
and I see here in post #201 where you ask for a safe environment for children
So I again have to ask - who is going to dictate the confines of your safe environment that Amazon needs to apply to help co-parent our children.
Will your proposed ratings system be like our current Movie ratings system, where a human body can be mutilated and murdered 6 ways from Sunday and still earn nothing more than a PG 13..... but show a man's you know what and its an automatic NC-17?
As a parent, I find it a totally un-tenable proposition and rather unreasonable to expect Amazon to implement. Because again - they are not just selling to me with my white bread middle America Protestant values. They're selling to Japan for goodness sake! Have you ever seen the types of things Japanese men carry onto mass transit to read during their commute? I can pretty well guarantee that if Amazon were to try and impose my values on that they'd be laughed away.
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..a man's you know what? It's a penis.
I don't care what Japanese men read on mass transit and it isn't even relevant.
I never suggested that Amazon should impose my values globally. I said they need to be a responsible retailer. And before you ask, no I will not outline how they ought to be responsible, whose definition of responsible will be used or any other silly questions.
How are such things normally decided? Voting? Polls? Why do you expect that this would be any different and why do I feel like I'm chasing my tail.
You don't have to agree with my views, I don't need the validation.