Green Energy
Surreal, but not totally unexpected (hat tip to Bloviating Zeppelin):
- From The Amazon Jungle To The Road To Damascus
Greeting from the Amazon jungle city of Iquitos, Peru. I've been living in the city and the jungle for just over two years now, my third year in South America, and I think it is about time for me to consider a move to lesser pastures. I've been...
- Confessions Of An Ayahuasca Skeptic
I still live n the Peruvian Amazon, for the past two months far into the jungle without any modern amenities. I live a life unlike that of almost anyone else you will ever meet. And so it is that I write books unlike those most others write. This latest...
- A Different Way To Reach People
The following was written by Harry Richardson: Fighting against Islam? A new weapon is now available. It may seem as if you are banging your head against a wall. It seems as if no one wants to listen to what you are trying to say. You’ve tried...
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Virtual Book Burning: Amazon Submits to Sharia Law in EuropeFrom Doug Ross' Journal:An alert reader of Germany's Politically Incorrect -- relayed by Gates of Vienna -- observes that Amazon appears to have deleted Geert Wilder's...
- Borders Books Policy: The Koran Is On Top
Yes, that's right, the koran must go on the top shelf. Yesterday, we saw that Borders will not carryan issue of a magazine they ordinarily carry, because the magazine ran the Mohammed cartoons. Now, today, here's an email (sent to LGF) from a...
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Digital Censorship At Amazon
Surreal, but not totally unexpected (hat tip to Bloviating Zeppelin):
Amazon Secretly Removes “1984” From the KindleForewarned is forearmed.
Thousands of people last week discovered that Amazon had quietly removed electronic copies of George Orwell's 1984 from their Kindle e-book readers. In the process, Amazon revealed how easy censorship will be in the Kindle age.
In this case, the mass e-book removals were motivated by copyright . A company called MobileReference, who did not own the copyrights to the books 1984 and Animal Farm, uploaded both books to the Kindle store and started selling them. When the rights owner heard about this, they contacted Amazon and asked that the e-books be removed. And Amazon decided to erase them not just from the store, but from all the Kindles where they'd been downloaded. Amazon operators used the Kindle wireless network, called WhisperNet, to quietly delete the books from people's devices and refund them the money they'd paid.
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Regardless of whether you believe Amazon's promise to leave your Kindle alone, the company has tipped its hand and shown us the dark side of a culture where books are only available in electronic form. If the WhisperNet service from Kindle allows the company to delete books silently from your device, what other information might they have access to? Can the company monitor what you're reading and when - and then hand that over to law enforcement? Can it replace a book file with a different file whose content is changed?
Perhaps more than anything else, this mass deletion of 1984 has made it clear that collecting e-books is going to require some technical know-how. No e-book is truly yours unless you can get it off your Kindle and onto your computer - hopefully a computer that isn't connected to the internet
- From The Amazon Jungle To The Road To Damascus
Greeting from the Amazon jungle city of Iquitos, Peru. I've been living in the city and the jungle for just over two years now, my third year in South America, and I think it is about time for me to consider a move to lesser pastures. I've been...
- Confessions Of An Ayahuasca Skeptic
I still live n the Peruvian Amazon, for the past two months far into the jungle without any modern amenities. I live a life unlike that of almost anyone else you will ever meet. And so it is that I write books unlike those most others write. This latest...
- A Different Way To Reach People
The following was written by Harry Richardson: Fighting against Islam? A new weapon is now available. It may seem as if you are banging your head against a wall. It seems as if no one wants to listen to what you are trying to say. You’ve tried...
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Virtual Book Burning: Amazon Submits to Sharia Law in EuropeFrom Doug Ross' Journal:An alert reader of Germany's Politically Incorrect -- relayed by Gates of Vienna -- observes that Amazon appears to have deleted Geert Wilder's...
- Borders Books Policy: The Koran Is On Top
Yes, that's right, the koran must go on the top shelf. Yesterday, we saw that Borders will not carryan issue of a magazine they ordinarily carry, because the magazine ran the Mohammed cartoons. Now, today, here's an email (sent to LGF) from a...