Today On The Shit List

[TRIGGER WARNING: Fascist assholes, morons, consumers, idiots, wage-slavery, Jeff Bezos.]
Any website, weblog or other pile of iNternet crapola w/ an Amazon referral program or that even links to Amazon for a book description (I bet most of those who link get money if the damn book is purchased.) is about to get a rude note & a few (anatomically difficult, but you can do it if you try!!) suggestions from me, as well as dumped unceremoniously from the bog-roll. (Boy howdy, that'll show 'em!)

From The NYT's gadget fetishist, who's apparently worried only about how this might affect him & his pseudo-literate consumer pals.

Amazon is confirming its critics’ worst fears and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

For years, authors and publishers have warned that Amazon, Jeff Bezos’ book-selling giant, would one day use its power for ill. Sure, so far, Amazon has marketed itself as a book buyer’s best friend. It sells books at terrifically low prices, it delivers them amazingly quickly, and it constantly invents new technologies to improve the way we read. Amazon has also invested heavily in publishing new authors and it has pushed exciting new formats made possible by electronic distribution.

Yet the literary community has always greeted Amazon’s moves with suspicion. The fear is mostly about the future. What will happen to books when Amazon controls the entire industry? How will authors and publishing houses reckon with Amazon’s unchecked power?

This week, as part of a contract dispute with the publisher Hachette, we’re seeing Amazon behaving at its worst. The company’s willingness to nakedly flex its anticompetitive muscle gives new cause for concern to anyone who cares about books — authors, publishers, but mainly customers.

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Now Amazon is raising prices, removing ordering buttons, lengthening shipping times and monkeying with recommendation algorithms. Do these sound like the moves of a man who cares about customers above all else?

Manjoo, you corporate lickspittle, you want an "ugly spectacle to behold," what of the way Bezos The Glibertarian Clown doesn't give shit one about his employees, either? Maybe someone who wasn't a tunnel-visioned jerk could have figured which direction Super-Bozo was going if they gave a shit about human beings treated like crap rather than having a hissy fit about how mean Amazon is to consuming sheep like the author.

Potential targets for people's action: Their lockers,

Smash screen to start

& their delivery vehicles.

Ssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!

A sledgehammer & a sharp strong blade are all you'll need. (Maybe a getaway vehicle too.)