G.R. Reader

. . . I can see how the issue of exercising corporate control over users content is truly enraging here, on a site significantly made by these contributors. It__ unavoidable that we come to this, in my opinion (corporations always do), and GR/Amazon has all keys to the kingdom, but I can see why it__ so disappointing and enraging.Your content is theirs to do with as they please, their software works as they want, your choices are take it or leave it.The Internet is no longer for sharing (nor for porn!), it__ for corporations to exercise their control over users.

And then they started deleting the protest reviews.That was my line. When they started to stamp out dissent, actually to make it disappear with virtually no excuse for doing so...that__ not neglect. That__ not an overwhelmed person or people trying to figure it out. That__ an entity that has decided that they do not care, that they have moved on from the issue, do not see it as an issue, and is trying to avoid bad press. Or they are too far down the line to backtrack on what they__e been doing and save face. They__e content with their wildly inconsistent policy enough to no longer care what effect it is having on their user base. If you try to silence dissent, then something is very, very wrong.

The GR site has acquired its market value through the work of its community.

As the voices fall silent, the individuals who make up the amorphous and always changing community must decide for themselves, as they always have. I can__ write a coda because I can__ speak for others. I can only and ever speak for myself.