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Originally Posted by Aimee Weber  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. |
What is OSA?
I was thinking about point 3, too, with them already having done that in the government (as you say, Operation Snow White).
Surely it's easier to infiltrate Amazon than the government?
I wouldn't have thought Dianetics was selling enough to persuade Amazon to bend to their pressure, however. They have millions of books, so Dianetics, even though it sells well, can't make up a significant percentage of their sales. Can it?
I'd love a statement from the owner(s) of Amazon regarding this. Youtube too.
Aimee, please start a huge and successful company with some sort of element Scientology would be interested in, then tell us how they tried to get you to cave into them.