America is becoming a country of censorship via companies and social medial platforms that block normal conversations and anything less-than-enthusiastic agreement with corporate propaganda and profit
Amazon wants (only) positive reviews so that their products will look popular and worth-the-purchase so that sales will be high even if value is low.
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Amazon's censorship of reviews
Six months ago I purchased and have since used a water filtration system from Amazon; tonight I discovered that one of the two filter units was defective but I was blocked from providing a review on Amazon—see screenshot below:
“We apologize but Amazon is not accepting reviews on this product from this account.”
Followed by:
“Rate 6 more products, and we'll tell you a joke.”
Really?!? I am an adult. I don’t need to be told a joke, let alone encouraged or cajoled1 by the promise of a joke. I would however like to be able to provide a review of the product that they sold me which I thought was well-made but I now see is defective.
Something similar happened when we lived in Europe and I was using a different Amazon account that I later cancelled; I bought 2 watch bands, and one of them was better made than the other. When I tried to post comparative reviews, Amazon posted my positive review for the better watch band but blocked my critical review of the more expensive band that was poorly made. This gave me the reasonable impression that Amazon was trying to make their products look great and popular while discouraging even minor neutrality or criticism. Amazon wants (only) positive reviews so that their products will look popular and worth-the-purchase so that sales will be high even if value is low.
Amazon was trying to make their products look great and popular while discouraging even minor neutrality or criticism.
Amazon wants (only) positive reviews so that their products will look popular and worth-the-purchase so that sales will be high even if value is low.
America is becoming a “country of censorship” via companies and social medial platforms that block normal conversations and anything less than enthusiastic agreement with corporate propaganda and sales.
Dr Noam Chomsky perfectly described corporate censorship more than 25 years ago— see video excerpt below from Manufacturing Consent, the full version of which I provided earlier (see link below, following video).
Amazon also banned my 2014 book on Antiviral Nutrition in early 2020 at the start of the supposed viral pandemic.
As you can see on page 5 of the PDF document provided above, Amazon provided no explanation for their banning of my Antiviral Nutrition book after 6 years of sales.
Amazon’s censorship of reviews and comments is similar to the censorship and filtration of ideas that we see on LinkedIn and YouTube, and also Wikipedia.
As I’ve noted before:
LinkedIn (tied to BIG TECH and paid by BIG PHARMA) also imposes arbitrary censorship, penalization, and disappearance against its professional members
YouTube censored my compilation of 9 peer-reviewed Medline-indexed scientific articles featuring world-famous experts; YouTube is lying and blocking accurate information by censoring and mischaracterizing
Plenty of other people and organizations have documented Amazon’s censorship
“The Amazon corporate conglomerate is notorious for using its power to surveil and control every minute of workers’ lives, to dominate labor rates, control local governments and demand huge tax rebates. Its management threatens to close facilities if its demands remain unmet. Amazon is arrogantly determined to decide what information we hear, what discussions we have, what books we read.”2
Ironically, Amazon has even censored documentaries about censorship3 but they continue to sell books that promote hate, violence, racism, and pedophilia.4
Do you have a similar experience, or perhaps even a different experience?
Please comment below
cajole To persuade by flattery, gentle pleading, or insincere language. To elicit or obtain by flattery, gentle pleading, or insincere language. To use flattery, pleading, or insincere language in an attempt to persuade someone to do something. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
https://www.workers.org/2021/03/54904/
https://www.newswars.com/amazon-censors-killing-free-speech-documentary-about-censorship/ and widely reported elsewhere
https://www.cnn.com/2010/US/11/10/amazon.pedophile.guide/index.html and widely reported elsewhere also including different titles in the same promotional genre