“At your next book club meeting, picture me sitting quietly in the corner, taking notes on your preferences. Imagine the next day you get an email from me trying to sell you a new grill — or a book —… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
“I am not Amish enough to emigrate when my way of life is threatened.” — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
“. . . I can see how the issue of exercising corporate control over users content is truly enraging here, on a site significantly… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
“If people wrote their reviews on paper and put them into a real, physical library, I am sure that the Goodreads administrators would be… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
“There was something so unutterably ridiculous about the sight of a US company deleting posts accusing it of censorship that many other people began… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
“You won’t believe this. 99% of reviews on GoodBetterBestReads are written by less than one percent of the members. Did you hear that? 99%!… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
“And that's the most horrible thing about censorship: To avoid falling afoul of the censors, we question ourselves and censor ourselves and make a… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
“This book is irrelevant to Goodreads because you can’t buy it on Amazon. Also it talks about oppression, censorship etc. and no one really… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
“The Internet is transient. Information can be removed with a couple of mouse-clicks; it is an Orwellian dream. We have been advised, by people… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
“By deciding what is, and is not, allowed to be discussed in a review, by removing discussion of social context, and saying that only… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
“At your next book club meeting, picture me sitting quietly in the corner, taking notes on your preferences. Imagine the next day you get… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
“And then they started deleting the protest reviews. That was my line. When they started to stamp out dissent, actually to make it disappear… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
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