[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by pking36330

But claiming a freedom of speech infringement for posting on a business website being edited is NOT the customer's choice. She too can vote with her wallet, but she has no reasonable expectation that Amazon won't take actions to protect their business on their website.

Also, I apologize for the misunderstanding, I wasn't calling daffy4u 'silly', I was saying that thinking Amazon editing her review was a valid FoS complaint was 'silly'. Replace with 'ludicrous', 'totally incorrect' or other term if you find silly offensive. Not my intent and I don't want this to devlove to name calling, we're just discussing a business's perogative to manage what it owns.

I need to back this up. I've been out doing errands and in thinking about this and I realized that there there is a major mis-understanding here. My comment about Freedom of Speech was in reaction to you writing that I (we) should stop wailing.

Get over yourself with the censorship wailing

To that I responded with:

BTW, I have the right to complain (or whine as you call it) as much as I like about Amazon's practices. I'm not willing to give up my Freedom of Speech for a business practice (is that what you really want?).

I now *think* that you took a statement in my first post and my comment about FoS and mixed them as something I was doing or was done to me on Amazon.

That's a MAJOR issue with me (I've ranted about it a few times here at MR). Do not edit what I've written without my permission. How dare they!

My ranting was not about Amazon censoring, it was some censoring done to my posts here on MR. I was just giving an example of how I felt on the subject (people who have been here longer have probably seen those posts).

I had already followed up with a post of Amazon's posting policy showing that they were within their rights.

To be clear, *I* did not write a review on Amazon that was censored and I was *not* claiming Amazon was violating my Freedom of Speech.

If you read my post history for the past year regarding Amazon, you will notice that I've had some lively discussions with many people here on MR (including some who have responded in this thread) where I defended Amazon (call me "cheerleader"). But as time has passed I've been begun to see issues through the detractor's eyes that have made me less than thrilled with Amazon.

I posted the Teleread story because it's another piece of anecdotal evidence of what many have been trying to get me to understand for months that I couldn't see.