I came across this worrying post about sneaky censorship on Unusual Things from Max Florschutz.
Why am I not surprised that Twitter is doing it too…?
I made an interesting and alarming discovery a few weeks ago.
Like most authors, I happen to love reading books as well. Between my local library, the occasional purchase, and my Kindle, I go through a good number of them every year. I have my entire life. Sands, in my small-town library, if I happened to be around the librarians would sometimes ask me if I knew a book a patron was asking about. I read a lot.
So, naturally, I gravitate to places online that talk about books. Forums that offer book reviews, or book chats, etc etc.
It was on one of these forums that I discovered an extremely disturbing trend.
Let me catch you up. One of the book places I hung out at quite regularly—or did, before this discovery, which all but killed my interest in it—was a place for book recommendations. It was pretty simple…
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Nasty, who do we want as arbiters of acceptability?
It all seems to revolve around money and greed.
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If money were directly involved it would be fraud, but there isn’t a word strong enough. It’s manipulation, social engineering, misinformation, mendacious, dishonest. Lying by omission.
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All of those things, unfortunately.
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