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Originally Posted by kennyc
Certainly you are part of a market segment, one that is in the case we are talking about is restricted by law and contract and business decisions.
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Well if you still don't get it from the DoJ quote I've posted above, I'll spell it out one more time:
It is just as illegal to divide the market into "segments" based on national origin as it is based on race, color, religion, disability, sex or familial status. It is just as illegal to refuse to sell to foreigners as it is to blacks, jews, women or the wheel-chair bound. Get it? Illegal!
In your holier-than-thou posturing you're happy to join the publishing industry in defaming people as thieves, i.e. criminals, for what is at the very worst a civil offence. But you're perfectly happy to condone illegal discrimination of customers by that same industry based on their national origin because it's a "business decision".
We've now established that in your book it's ok for a store to refuse service to all foreigners if it helps to make money. Is it also ok to refuse service to all blacks, jews, muslims, women, the disabled and the divorsed if it translates into higher profits? Do you think the Civil Rights Act should be repealed, because it's been made redundant by contract law and marketing strategies?
I'm pretty sure whites are on average richer than blacks in America, so why not separate all whites into a separate "market segment", and have a separate Amazon branch for them where everything costs twice as much? Naturally they would not be allowed to buy anything from the "black" or "latino" Amazon, because that would be bad for the bottom line - but that's ok with you, isn't it? I mean, there would be an appropriate contract and everything. With separate rights to sell to the whites and to everyone else. Right?