Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

Same here. I like Bezos a little better than Zuck because at least I'm allowed to shop on Amazon.

Shall I recount the tale of I (rightfully) labeled 2 new books on BBSs as "woke nonesense" (Yes, that was the most harsh thing I said) and got banned from leaving any reviews on Amazon forever?

Right now, I shop on Amazon only if there's no other real alternative.


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Shall I recount the tale of I (rightfully) labeled 2 new books on BBSs
as "woke nonesense" (Yes, that was the most harsh thing I said) and got banned from leaving any reviews on Amazon forever?

Right now, I shop on Amazon only if there's no other real alternative.

I forgot about that. But at least they still let you shop on there. Facebook don't let me do anything unless I produce, film, and upload a gay porn video to them.

I'm the same way with Amazon. I order my furnace filters on there because there's nowhere else to get them.

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

I forgot about that. But at least they still let you shop on there.

But I'm sure that if I "purchased" anything for their Swindle eBook reader or any of their media, I would have lost access to it.

Facebook don't let me do anything unless I produce, film, and upload a
gay porn video to them.

You need to be in better groups on Facebook. :)

Right now, my Facebook is used to stay in touch with older family members who don't want to learn something else, and to share with other geeks with my interests.

They did restrict me a while back during the scamdemic when I posted some memes that broke their Narrative, but since I don't use Facebook to make money, I really didn't care.

I'm the same way with Amazon. I order my furnace filters on there
because there's nowhere else to get them.

Sort of like the Walmart Effect:
They build a store just outside of a town, sell things for a very small profit to reduce prices and kill off the town business. Once the town business are gone, they close the store and consolidate into a "super store" 30+ minutes away.

Amazon sells stuff so low that people buy only from them, then the local businesses stop selling those products because no one buys from them. Now you are "forced" to buy from Amazon.


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Right now, my Facebook is used to stay in touch with older family
members who don't want to learn something else, and to share with other geeks with my interests.

I don't blame you or anyone else who uses it. They are picking on me for some reason. Mike P said it's probably because I didn't have enough people friended and I looked like a bot, but I think it's deeper than that.

Amazon sells stuff so low that people buy only from them, then the local businesses stop selling those products because no one buys from them.
Now you are "forced" to buy from Amazon.

The same scenario takes places in other industries too, like Facebook for example. Nobody can compete with it, and other companies are complicit. If Google finds out that a new company similar to Amazon is being constructed,
they'll do everything they can to screw it over because that's the kind of network the elite are running.

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

I don't blame you or anyone else who uses it. They are picking on me
for some reason. Mike P said it's probably because I didn't have enough people friended and I looked like a bot, but I think it's deeper than that.

You probably pissed off one of the pink haired whackos who "fact check" things - which is pretty easy to do.

The same scenario takes places in other industries too, like Facebook
for example. Nobody can compete with it,

For now. As long as Facebook doesn't make it too painful for people. Hence the Zuck's payment to Trump to try to make sure that people don't "Bud Light" Facebook.

But, as Firefox found out after f-ing around, cross that line and people will drop you like a rock. And Facebook needs people, actually "enough" people to bring in enough ad revenue and such to make it go.

If Google finds out that a new company similar to Amazon is
being constructed, they'll do everything they can to screw it over
because that's the kind of network the elite are running.

Right. But in a free market if Google does something like that, people will drop Google - which is why the Left hates free markets. And, for Google, it's already happening. Google is no longer the runaway success for a search engine. People have seen the bias and no longer trust the results.


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If Google finds out that a new company similar to Amazon is
being constructed, they'll do everything they can to screw it over because that's the kind of network the elite are running.

Right. But in a free market if Google does something like that, people will drop Google - which is why the Left hates free markets. And, for Google, it's already happening. Google is no longer the runaway success for a search engine. People have seen the bias and no longer trust the results.

A lot of people have figured this out but I don't think it's very common for people to fully analyze all these clues. More than 1/2 the country has rejected Democrats, which is great, but that's a baby step. Now we need them to reject Walmart, Amazon, Facebook, the "news."

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

A lot of people have figured this out but I don't think it's very
common for people to fully analyze all these clues. More than 1/2 the country has rejected Democrats, which is great, but that's a baby step. Now we need them to reject Walmart, Amazon, Facebook, the "news."

I don't shop at Walmart because I didn't marry my cousin.
I avoid Amazon because they are Woke.
I keep my Facebook "circle" very small and focused.

So I really can't speak to whether or not people are starting to reject them.

But we can see that the Media is collapsing due to lack of revenue. So people aren't trusting "the news" anymore.


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Ron L. wrote to Aaron Thomas <=-

But I'm sure that if I "purchased" anything for their Swindle eBook
reader or any of their media, I would have lost access to it.

Sorry to interrupt the flow of political rants, but there are ways of
backing up and de-DRMing Kindle books using an older version of Kindle
for Windows, Calibre eBook reader and a couple of plugins.

I backed up all of my Kindle books before they removed the ability to
do so earlier this year and back up books I download incrementally.

It's preferable to purchase ebooks from vendors who don't apply digital
rights management or sell you a "license to use" a book.




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