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Calls to Boycott Amazon over Wikileaks: #amazonfail 2.0?

Dec 2, 2010

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in political, social sciences, Tales from the Net

Heading into the busiest shopping time of the year, Amazon is suddenly facing threats of a boycott over censoring Wikileaks.Â Â Seems like a good time to dust off the #amazonfail hashtag. It started last week, after a hacker took one of Wikileaks’ sites down with a relatively weak attack.Â Wikileaks moved their online base to…

#amazonfail and we’re not done yet: links and perspectives (UPDATED with new links)

Apr 18, 2009

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jon

in Tales from the Net, Uncategorized

Update, April 21: added some additional links here Amazon’s stock has recovered, bouyed by Friday’s report that Kindle sales have exceeded expectations. Traffic on the #amazonfail hashtag is much lighter.Â The auction for AmazonFail.com is over, at least for the time being. But I don’t think this issue’s going away quite that quickly. Right now…

My reply to Clay Shirky on #amazonfail

Apr 15, 2009

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jon

in political, social computing

Clay’s post The failure of #amazonfail admits that over the weekend, he jumped to conclusions,Â “believed things that weren’t true” about Amazon and was “intoxicated” by the hashtag.Â He now thinks he was wrong.Â Most of the post is written in the first person plural, assuming everybody else reacted as he did.Â He concludes that…

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Calls to Boycott Amazon over Wikileaks: #amazonfail 2.0?

#amazonfail and we’re not done yet: links and perspectives (UPDATED with new links)

My reply to Clay Shirky on #amazonfail