After looking through the patriot act website I decided to pursue the case study about a book sold on Amazon's British website. The story is posted on nytimes.com so one would assume this article would be somewhat legitimate, the story is also linked to a government site making it appear to be authentic. At first the article was an interesting read but I eventually discovered some problems. They did not seem to have any information on the book that caused problems, and yet there was a big enough deal for the cover to be taken off line. The article provided vague details with little actual facts. And it goes on to repeat the entire story in the same article, as if some one copy and pasted it once.
I did want to point this article out though as an example of a website being wise and not wanting to get in trouble with the government by removing an offensive image. It seems like in today's world, most people try to stay out of the way of the government as if it is some goliath. I would like to see more power in the PEOPLE'S hands.
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Hmm. Interesting but I'm not sure where you are going with the comment about not having info on the book. and my favorite piece of info is that 3 people have bought the book. But yeah this seems to be an example of people and businesses monitoring themselves so they don't get in trouble with their customers or the government.
ReplyDeleteThis could relate to my post about the University of Miami employee getting fired for saying "Some birthday gift from Osama bin Laden". The newspaper article was no longer available, and I couldn't find it anywhere. Either the publisher had taken it down or the government....
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