Amazon.com Contributes to Internet Noise Pollution
I am so glad that Amazon enabled commenting on product reviews. Now I can enjoy vitriolic Internet flame wars without even having to visit Slashdot or a discussion forum!
Case in point: Read the back-and-forth between E. Keech and Jim Harrigan in the comments on this review of An Inconvenient Truth (the book, not movie). It’s like watching some kind of bizarre postmodern comedy skit, wherein two allegedly educated professional men discuss the issues of the day by sticking their fingers in their ears and screaming at one another full-volume. They’re only reading enough of each other’s comments to figure out which canned talking points to copy-and-paste next.
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