FIY NP

[HMus]

Amazon's denial is more moral than technical: they host the reader reviews,
making them available, just like a store or library does. Were they to send
them out in email &/or newsletters, they would be publishing it; it is the
writer of the review who in this case publishes it. If they wrote such a
review themselves, then they would be the publishers.

Would you ask them to censor the one ignorant review out of seven customer
reviews displayed on what is in effect a public bulletin board? Should the
P-List be held accountable for the unpleasantness and general, stubborn
disagreeability of one of the people who post on it? <g>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Millison" <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: FIY NP


> As much as I hate to prolong this thread, another reality check may be in
> order. Despite  Amazon.com's disclaimers and denial (technically accurate,
> I suppose) that Amazon.com has "written" a favorable review of The
> Protocols of Zion, Amazon.com does *publish* the following rave review of
> this piece of anti-Semitic trash. It's one of the seven customers reviews
> that Amazon.com publishes on the page that sells this book, at (watch the
> URL wrap)
>
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/book-customer-reviews/0685175073/o/qid=
9574
> 86721/sr=2-1/002-5798353-0189051
>
>
> "25 of 187 people found the following review helpful:
> Excellent Explanation of World Finance History
> August 14, 1999
> Reviewer: A reader from Bellaire, Texas
> This book provides startling insight into the origins and operation of our
> current political and financial systems. A concise hard hitting treatise.
"
>
> P.S.  Since when does boycott = censorship?  Boycott is when people choose
> not to buy something. Censorship is when somebody forces somebody else not
> to publish something. This book is in print and freely available, which
> means it has not been censored.
>
> d  o  u  g    m  i  l  l  i  s  o  n  <http://www.online-journalist.com>
>