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rispacooper) wrote2009-04-14 11:01 am
rispacooper) wrote2009-04-14 11:01 am
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yay buttsecks!
I'm sorry but the idea (suggested by a few, most notably one former 6A staffer) that the whole #amazonfail is really all the very clever work of some fundie right-wing trolls tagging books on Amazon and then sitting back like the chess master working for SMERSH in From Russia With Love and watch the following shitstorm somehow make already-marginalized communities seem crazy is just absolutely ludicrous.
First of all, overly-elaborate conspiracies are always ridiculous. Human nature if nothing else almost always brings down anything too complex, and then following that "logic" the goal of these trolls would be...what exactly? The downfall of Amazon? I doubt that. Though one would have to assume they have something else in place to take Amazon's place, which no one has ever heard of...and also they'd have to be MASSIVE GENIUSES WITH GIANT PULSATING BRAINS to anticipate the popularity of Twitter and its role in all this.
But ignoring that, I could just point out that this has been slowly happening since February, and that most of the books that have been deranked have no tags on them at all.
Don't get me wrong, I totally believe some asshole fundie group would go around tagging random books they found offensive. I even believe they would organize to do it (though I am surprised that they read). But even if this had occurred, again following this "logic", the idea that Amazon did not notice, or did nothing to stop it, or didn't once investigate, or never once set up any other sort of safeguard/blocking system to teh children away from the teh prons, or allowed unknown users to destroy and essentially delete certain books from existence, or didn't know how to classify its own books, or fails at cataloging means that Amazon was never a company that should have been trusted in the first place. That it would then backtrack with the bullshit "glitch" statement is simply pathetic, especially from a company that requires trust from its customers in order to function. (I'm not sending my money out anonymously over the internet unless I have some expectation that I will be treated well. So sorry, Amazon, sucks to be you).
Furthermore, I'm really sick of those who might not necessarily be in power, but who work for those in power and who keep apologizing for those in power when they have either, a) DELIBERATELY and yet CLUMSILY screwed us over, or, b) been so CARELESS and INCOMPETENT that the result is about the same. Your choices are Evil or Stupid. Pick one. No blaming anonymous trolls or meanie groups of your own customers asserting their rights. However this plays out, the fault lies with Amazon.
First of all, overly-elaborate conspiracies are always ridiculous. Human nature if nothing else almost always brings down anything too complex, and then following that "logic" the goal of these trolls would be...what exactly? The downfall of Amazon? I doubt that. Though one would have to assume they have something else in place to take Amazon's place, which no one has ever heard of...and also they'd have to be MASSIVE GENIUSES WITH GIANT PULSATING BRAINS to anticipate the popularity of Twitter and its role in all this.
But ignoring that, I could just point out that this has been slowly happening since February, and that most of the books that have been deranked have no tags on them at all.
Don't get me wrong, I totally believe some asshole fundie group would go around tagging random books they found offensive. I even believe they would organize to do it (though I am surprised that they read). But even if this had occurred, again following this "logic", the idea that Amazon did not notice, or did nothing to stop it, or didn't once investigate, or never once set up any other sort of safeguard/blocking system to teh children away from the teh prons, or allowed unknown users to destroy and essentially delete certain books from existence, or didn't know how to classify its own books, or fails at cataloging means that Amazon was never a company that should have been trusted in the first place. That it would then backtrack with the bullshit "glitch" statement is simply pathetic, especially from a company that requires trust from its customers in order to function. (I'm not sending my money out anonymously over the internet unless I have some expectation that I will be treated well. So sorry, Amazon, sucks to be you).
Furthermore, I'm really sick of those who might not necessarily be in power, but who work for those in power and who keep apologizing for those in power when they have either, a) DELIBERATELY and yet CLUMSILY screwed us over, or, b) been so CARELESS and INCOMPETENT that the result is about the same. Your choices are Evil or Stupid. Pick one. No blaming anonymous trolls or meanie groups of your own customers asserting their rights. However this plays out, the fault lies with Amazon.
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haha
It's a weird rallying cry, but I feel it works.
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