Amazon Partners With Chinese Propaganda Arm, Deletes Reviews Critical of Communist Party Books
By Mike Miller | Dec 26, 2021 6:30 PM ET
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In the latest example of corporate America kowtowing to the Communists in Beijing, internal memos and Amazon.com insiders have revealed the company’s continuing appeasement of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), including colluding with state propaganda operatives to delete reviews of books critical of the regime.
Notably, as reported by Reuters, Amazon caved in like a cheap Mao suit to a CCP edict that it stop allowing negative customer ratings and reviews of the book “Xi Jinping: The Governance of China,” which contains many of Xi’s speeches and writings, as well as other state propaganda.
It gets worse.
Said a company insider, according to Reuters: “I think the issue was anything under five stars.”
Amazon agreed to Beijing’s demand to have anything below a five-star review of Xi Jinping’s book The Governance of China removed from its Chinese site https://t.co/8N3SAXg3rV
— The Times (@thetimes) December 20, 2021
Currently, on the Chinese site Amazon.cn, the government-published book has no customer reviews, ratings, nor even a working “comments” section, all of which are included on other Amazon.com sites.
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