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Amazon is changing what is written in books (youtu.be)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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But lets see the Positive side: Now the Nazis wont have to burn thousands of books, saving tons of co2 in their Plan to take over the world with propaganda. So, yay for the envoirment I guess

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's still not OK

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Doing it silently without consent is definitely not okay. Or if they do such a thing, they should notify the user and give an option to rollback if they wanted. That’s what a company that respect users would do.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Printing new editions of a book was always a thing

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago

Forcibly destroying all previous editions is not however

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Quietly swapping your earlier edition with the current edition was not, however.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I'm with you on this one.