Posted on 12/19/2021 3:47:21 AM PST by EBH
LONDON, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc was marketing a collection of President Xi Jinping's speeches and writings on its Chinese website about two years ago, when Beijing delivered an edict, according to two people familiar with the incident. The American e-commerce giant must stop allowing any customer ratings and reviews in China.
A negative review of Xi's book prompted the demand, one of the people said. "I think the issue was anything under five stars," the highest rating in Amazon's five-point system, said the other person.
Ratings and reviews are a crucial part of Amazon's e-commerce business, a major way of engaging shoppers. But Amazon complied, the two people said. Currently, on its Chinese site Amazon.cn, the government-published book has no customer reviews or any ratings. And the comments section is disabled.
Amazon's compliance with the Chinese government edict, which has not been reported before, is part of a deeper, decade-long effort by the company to win favor in Beijing to protect and grow its business in one of the world's largest marketplaces.
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Government silent is complicity.
Soon to be unemployed Steve Stecklow and Jeffrey Dastin. Full scale Reuters investigation on how this story got out.
Possibly, quite possibly.
Looks like Amazon chose China over the United States.
Good Luck with your choice, Bezos, you ugly SOB.
You’re chitin me. Right?
Surprise! The company so many Americans buy junk from actually hates them.
**Bezos, you ugly SOB.**
I don’t like to speak ill of a person’s physical appearance, but yeah, he probably found out by the time he became a young man, that he was going to have to use his brains to become wealthy, in order to get a pretty lady.
I suspect soroz, in a similar way, would never have secured a pretty wife without his wealth.
I’ve never been wealthy, but I managed to secure a gorgeous lady over 43 yrs ago, (who is STILL gorgeous, and is certainly no dummy), so I must have had something going for me. lol
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