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Originally Posted by whitearrow
More to the point, to my way of thinking, is that the 1984 analogy fails because Amazon is not the government.
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Oh, if it was the government, then it would apply, you are very literal in your thinking, which is not a bad thing, but I see the principle behind it , as some others do too. Amazon wouldn't have revised their position and say they will not do this again in future if they didn't FEEL the backlash of their action. If a private school or company played Big Brother , since it also would not be the government like in 1984, you could not see the PRINCIPLE of the book?
You guys can defend amazon if you want and take a sentence I wrote out of context, that is your right, but even Amazon can see the parallel's , and news articles can see the parallel. You don't , and I'm ok with that.