Amazon Manipulates Reviews and Sends Malware
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Danusha V. Goska
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Posted By: Judy W.,
9/23/2023 1:54:13 PM
Sometime during the summer of 2023, I posted a review of Elliot Page’s memoir Pageboy on Amazon. I take words seriously, even the words that constitute Amazon reviews. Language can convey truth; language can empower lies. The difference between truth and lies is the difference between life and death. In my faith, Satan is the father of lies. God is the logos, the Word; God is truth and the truth sets us free. (Snip)
Elliot Page’s Pageboy is a poorly written book. I said this because bad writing matters. “Writing clearly is thinking clearly.” Writing poorly underwrites destructive behavior. Identifying bad writing is a worthwhile use of time.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
TrueBlueWfan 9/23/2023 2:16:55 PM (No. 1561889)
Amazon was clearly wrong to erase all this author's reviews. Yesterday, there was anoter article here about Amazon shutting down all a black man's devices becauseca black Amazon deliveryman heard what he thought was a racial slur through a doorbell camera.
I don't write reviews for any product, unless it is extremely good or bad. What I think is my business.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/23/2023 2:41:57 PM (No. 1561894)
I wrote a review for a product I had purchased on Amazon. It was a positive review, because I liked the product. Amazon wrote back that my review was not acceptable. I have never bothered writing any more reviews for Amazon.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
kono 9/23/2023 2:47:42 PM (No. 1561900)
I read Danushka's review of Pageboy in this article and consider it eloquent and persuasive. I suspect that Amazon felt her likening Page's writing to the diary of a distressed teenage girl was trying to get away with attacking a "trans". (I wonder if the result would have been the same if Danushka had likened Page's writing to the diary of a troubled teenage boy, instead.)
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weirdone 9/23/2023 3:38:52 PM (No. 1561919)
It gets even worse. On or about the 17th of August I sent the letter to the editors of several WY and MT newspapers. It was published in the Northern Wyoming News on the 22 of June.
A day or so later I received an email from the Independent Record indicating that no further letters of mine would be published as it was determined that I was a BOT. Since the letter had been published elsewhere, and not understanding what a BOT was, I just dismissed the email and deleted it. I also received a similar letter from the Casper Star Tribune informing me they would no longer publish my letters either, it was also ignored and deleted.
Several weeks previous to this I discovered that all my email contacts had disappeared from my account at Reaganmail.com, All attempts to recover them have failed although I contacted Reagan mail.
I also discovered that emails that I sent to a friend never got to him although they appeared in my sent file. The two of us tried to figure out what was going on to no avail, so I enlisted my son, who is more computer literate than either of us, to look into it. He spent some time going over my account and determined that the problem must be on my friend's end. My friend brought his laptop over, and my son spent 35- or 40-minutes working on it. He discovered a long list of blocked emails with my name on his laptop. The addresses had been blocked by Google and came as a Google Account App Update. The only way to remove my name was to delete the entire list, which he did. I do not use Google and haven't for several years.
The only reason that I can see that this has happened is that I am very outspoken conservative and have had 99% of the letters to the editor that I have sent in published. In addition, I have had made hundreds of comments online to nationwide news stories. This obvious attempt to sensor my views infuriate me, and I believe it happens more than we realize. This and any similar situations should be investigated, and severe penalties assessed for violations of the First Amendment.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Bmoc 9/23/2023 3:59:50 PM (No. 1561927)
Like #2, I was told a review of something delivered in small pieces was unacceptable. They pulled it and when I protested, I was "warned."
The next thing I knew, most of my books (yes, I write books) began to lose reviews... oddly enough, all five-star reviews, and a bunch of two and three-star reviews with no "Verified Purchase" and no words began to show up on various stories. I had one story (with a conservative slant) that went from 80+ five-star reviews to only ONE four-star review. Odd thing, that, huh?
I'm moving from publishing solely at Amazon to PubishDrive which will list on Amazon, but Amazon doesn't have the rights so to speak.
A lot of writers in my publishing group are complaining of the same thing.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Wetenschapper 9/23/2023 6:25:10 PM (No. 1561986)
I also noticed, back during the days of the CCP-virus lockdowns, that no reviews mentioning the word "China" or "Covid" were accepted. I had two reviews that were cancelled: one that called an inferior product a "cheap Chinese knock-off" (it was a poorly-made imitation of a well-known US-made weed puller) and a second review that "failed to meet guidlines" complained about long delivery times for an item that "had possibly been delayed because of Covid-related supply issues".
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JimBob 9/24/2023 1:27:44 AM (No. 1562139)
Good article, but it wore me out.
I do not buy ANYTHING via Amazon. I might use Amazon to search for a product, then I buy it from some other source.
As far as Google, I only try Google Maps or Google search when I have NO alternative.
Starve 'em of users. I may be only one person, but that's my (miniscule) contribution.
Will you join me?
Disney, Bed, Bath & Beyond, Target, and Bud Light found out about what happens when they urinate on enough people.
Let Amazon and Google join their company!
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Amazon took down all of the many reviews the author has written over many years, and never told her why, or notified her, or gave her any guidelines. The review in question is published at the end of this piece. It seems the book was a badly written memoir by a disturbed person, a girl who "became" something else. There it is: If you're trans you get to do anything, say anything, and anyone criticizing you is cancelled.