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gonewithoutjam

The Internet Never Sleeps

Apr 13, 2009 14:58

Even Easter weekend isn't a good time to try to bury bad news.

Late to the party, but I couldn't not link to the whole amazonfail story. This comes via an impressive number of people on my friends list, thank you to all of you ( Read more... )

same old same old, amazonfail

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softfruit April 13 2009, 19:10:03 UTC

I stress first that I have not been wearing a politico hat or a journo hat this weekend, so I _know_ next to zero on this and have just read an assortment of links like everyone else ( ... )

gonewithoutjam April 13 2009, 19:20:41 UTC

I did try comparing those searches, but I think the numbers threw me from any conclusion you made. Partly because Amazon UK didn't seem to be as affected by the 'glitch' so there was still a lot of stuff showing up (and not a whole lot of stuff showing up under bisexuality). I'm keeping an open mind but an action by Amazon could have left out or not got around to the same things as an action by someone else.

I think there's probably a way they can still do user ratings and not allow things like this to happen. I know they don't allow all user ratings and feedback through because I've posted some they've ignored. So they obviously have some sort of vetting procedure for some things at least.

I haven't personally read anything about Amazon's employment practices. If I had I'd be all over that too. As it is, all I've read is a lot of stuff about how they're pushing out smaller booksellers, which isn't convincing me given the number of small booksellers I've found through Amazon Marketplace.

softfruit April 13 2009, 19:35:53 UTC

The employment stuff is from reasonably reliable sources (Grauniad/Indy, I forget which, and I take reports in both with a pinch of salt but a lot less salt than I take things like the Times or Mail) and I would rather google it than try to remember the details, but it was in the bordering-on-illegal employment practices sort of territory. Their defence was that people kept on working there, because of course there are a surfeit of alternative good employers out there with squoodles of vacancies just now ( ... )

gonewithoutjam April 13 2009, 19:41:58 UTC

Thanks, I might google that. I'm a bit rushed in my reading, so if something doesn't show up on any of my human rights emails, a feminist blog or one of my environmental groups, and isn't linked on any other blogs I follow, I don't see it. Somewhat narrow in my scope of caring about the world, but who isn't these days?

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