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Originally Posted by Mukatsuku  I'd love to know in what way Scientology is putting pressure onto places like Amazon and Youtube.
Is it simply in the form of legal letters, or are they phoning, or going to the companies in person? I'd be interested to see what it takes for a large company to be made to bow down to you in the way these companies are bowing down to scientology. |
I doubt the pressure is through legal threats. I am guessing it's a few factors:
1. Scientology OSA people learn the in's and outs of Amazon's adminstrative policy. While the wording of Amazon's TOS may be vague and open ended to the public ... administrators probably have very specific key words or scenarios that qualify as an instant "remove comment." OSA people will get to know the admins and eventually know exactly what Amazon admins need to hear to come to a remove decision. They then submit ideally formed complaints for every negative comment.
2. Dianetics is a big selling book. ALL companies give special treatment to "golden goose" clients and Scientology qualifies. If CoS says "we need to remove these negative comments or we will pull out and sell exclusively through Barnes & Noble" that might be enough for Amazon to bend their policy in favor of CoS.
3. I don't think I become a tin-foil hat person to say there exists the possibility that CoS has people in Amazon. Infiltration into other organizations part of CoS' MO (remember operation Snow White) so asking CoS members to apply for admin positions at Amazon is not a crazy stretch. With negative Dianetics reviews reduced to zero regularly, a Scientologist admin would be very plausible.