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Originally Posted by Sonist
Unethical business practices, such as surreptitious tampering with search results, or deleting reviews for no valid reasons, require a remedy, particularly for a business which controls a large share of the US online market.
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We are fundamentally opposed on this issue and we will just have to agree to disagree.
You are making a
value judgement that Amazon filtering searches or deleting user posts on their website is 'unethical' and requires a 'remedy' of some sort.
I make exactly the opposite
value judgement that this is an ethical and necessary business practice and as sole owner of their web presence, they don't owe consumers even a mention of how they do it or what they do.
You have the right to visit and participate in their website, or not. They aren't forcing you, you can go to B&N for your books or BBB for your housewares. But even considering that some government entity should control how Amazon manages their website is just more socialist government fervor that is currently costing us billions a day in added tax burden. Pretty soon we'll have Sinead O'Connor appointed as the Deputy UnderSecretary of Underwear telling us how many squares of toilet paper we're 'allowed' to use when we wipe. We'd better back off and let business operate or we'll be buying our ebooks from Amazonia out of Brazil soon.