• JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    2 年前

    My comrade in solidarity, you are literally performing that counter-function right now.

    You really think amazon would let a bunch of negative reviews bomb their own IP on their own platform?

    • Binguz [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      2 年前

      Yes if they felt that removing those negative reviews would spark an outcry that harmed their other affiliated businesses

      • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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        2 年前

        Amazon's other affiliated businesses are The Internet. Amazon's profits come from running a massive chunk of the internet's cloud hosting and data analytics. Everything else is a loss leader and data collection avenue. The algorithms know exactly who is leaving what kind of review and they are definitely going to use that information in future promotions, my friend.

        • Binguz [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          2 年前

          This is all true, but we were discussing why Amazon might not remove negative reviews, and my point was that them doing so would spark a right wing media outrage that could lead to some chud business owners canceling their AWS or whatever.

          • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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            2 年前
            1. Why would they need to remove reviews when they algorithmically show them in the first place?

            2. Media outrage is still data for them to collect and profit from.

            3. Nobody with a bank account large enough for Amazon to care about gives a shit about the culture wars. Amazon's biggest clients are governments and billionaires, not some qanon chud with an etsy shop.

            • Binguz [none/use name]
              hexagon
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              2 年前

              Nobody with a bank account large enough for Amazon to care about gives a shit about the culture wars.

              Elon Musk? The billionaires funding Prager U? The rich people who bought George Zimmerman's gun for $200k or bailed out Rittenhouse? I don't think you know how stupid and internet brain poisoned most rich people are. They are literally giving Bari Weiss $800k a year on Substack to post one dogshit column about cancel culture each week.

              • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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                2 年前

                Musk might be dumb enough, but if you think the Kochs and Mercers of the world don't have class solidarity with Bezos you need to get off hexbear and start reading some theory, comrade.

                • Binguz [none/use name]
                  hexagon
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                  2 年前

                  I agree with this, I was more angling to support the creatives behind the show, not Bezos. But I am saying there are rich who support fascism for primarily monetary reasons but also rich people who are 100% invested in stupid culture war shit like woke Mr Potato Head or whatever.

                  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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                    2 年前

                    Those people are rounding errors to Amazon, friend. You're also forgetting just how much it would cost for an organization of consequence to Amazon to move their infrastructure away from Amazon.

                    And creatives on Amazon don't need our support, they need an alternative to Amazon.

                    • Binguz [none/use name]
                      hexagon
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                      2 年前

                      I would instantly support any alternative to Amazon but I also dislike seeing well made stuff get dishonestly maligned

              • yellowparenti5 [none/use name]
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                edit-2
                2 年前

                PragerU CEO is ex Israeli intelligence https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1463598301681373186?lang=en

                So yeah, everything is CIA