Did Amazon Delete Spore Reviews?
Found on Techdirt on Friday, 12 September 2008
Earlier this week we wrote about the controversy of EA's decision to put cumbersome DRM on the highly anticipated video game, Spore. The response was that thousands of people started posting one star reviews of Spore, noting the problems with the DRM.
Now, a bunch of people have noticed that Amazon appears to have deleted all of the reviews on the Spore page. This is only going to end badly.
It appears that some, or potentially all, of the reviews are now back on the site, and Amazon is claiming that it was a "glitch" that they disappeared. Some people claim that their own reviews are not back yet, though, so the whole situation is a bit fluid.
I wonder who had that stupid idea at Amazon. You don't just silence someone with censorship. This is a PR nightmare for them now, and lots of people already decided never to shop there again. Smart move Amazon.