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Amazon Deletes Reviews of Conservative Authors with No Explanation

PoS said:
Wrong again, as Ive told you I am in touch with a multitude of authors on many forums because ... I am one. All you have to do is google a number of their personal blogs and check out their groups, and they all have experienced the purging of reviews on their books, and they are not conservatives.

But of course, you will never do this because the moment you read a conservative blog site that confirms to your narrow beliefs you believe them regardless. Well, thats you.
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IN THIS CASE which is the topic of discussion here, no liberal authors said they had an issue.!
 
Buzz62 said:
IN THIS CASE which is the topic of discussion here, no liberal authors said they had an issue.!
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The topic of discussion is whether there is truth to the OP, namely if conservative authors are being exclusively targeted by Amazon review purges. A quick search on the net reveals it is not the case. You can deflect all you want but you keep getting proved wrong and youre merely digging a bigger hole for yourself.
 
What if...? said:
Nora bene once posted a list of things to look for to identify propaganda.

One of them was if you have a strong emotional response, look again.

Because propaganda works on emotions. They don't have to convince you with facts.

The pjmedia article has all the signs.

Amazon periodically purges reviews, for a number of reasons. Paid reviewers, for instance. Bots. (Bots are a big subject at the marketing conventions I work at.)

Pjmedia took a purge that affected some conservatives and focused on them as if nobody else ever had their reviews purged. There is no mention of amazon periodically purging other reviews. Nor any proof that the reviews were purged for nefarious reasons.

Just funny math. Conservative reviews were purged=anti-conservative conspiracy. Which would be ridiculous if it were cook book reviews. Cookbook reviews were purged=anti-cook conspiracy.

And for those who are still convinced that the IRS "scandal" was about partisanship and not a flubbed attempt to combat abuse of the 501(c)(4) status to provide anonymity to donors, remember that somebody tried to put a rider in the tax bill to make all non-profit donations anonymous and tax deductible and freely political.

Think about that.
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Except it wasn't cookbook reviews. It was only conservative reviews. Bots look for key words. Interesting that they might have found those key words only in conservative reviews...eh? Not buyin' it.
 
PoS said:
The topic of discussion is whether there is truth to the OP, namely if conservative authors are being exclusively targeted by Amazon review purges. A quick search on the net reveals it is not the case. You can deflect all you want but you keep getting proved wrong and youre merely digging a bigger hole for yourself.
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Don't 'fudge' this by comparing genral storage purges with what is obviously a targeted purge. You're merely deflecting this particular issue by trying to dismiss it as a normal, general purge, which would have been a blanket coverage affair.
 
chuckiechan said:
This is just one of many "reckonings" that have to happen in this country. Since when does Big Data and FAANG get the right to choke off the conservative air supply by denying them representation in the digital world?
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Since the alt-right weaponized things as supposedly innocuous as book reviews?

Alt-right: OK with voter roll purges; outraged about book review purges.
 
Not surprising anyway. Twitter did the same thing with conservative and libertarian accounts.
 
enderpotato00 said:
Not surprising anyway. Twitter did the same thing with conservative and libertarian accounts.
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What they did is remove comments that could be traced to bots. It effected liberals too. It is just that the conservatives and libertarians are the ones that thought there was a conspiracy against them.
 
RAMOSS said:
What they did is remove comments that could be traced to bots. It effected liberals too. It is just that the conservatives and libertarians are the ones that thought there was a conspiracy against them.
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Really? Because all I ever saw was conservative and libertarian accounts being targeted. I know this because my many followers on twitter are not bots.
 
enderpotato00 said:
Really? Because all I ever saw was conservative and libertarian accounts being targeted. I know this because my many followers on twitter are not bots.
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Yes, really. You are seeing a selective group of people that are self reporting.
 
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