Tag: BOYCOTT

When a book offering guidance on how to be a pedophile inexplicably landed in the Kindle's list of Top 100 Paid Bestsellers, Amazon suddenly found itself at the center of a brewing national controversy. Thousands of users posted comments of anger and disgust, and many even threatened to boycott the retailer. Through it all, Amazon held firm, and steadfastly refused to remove the title -- until ...

Who knew that that the Amazon Kindle would prove to be such a flash point for controversy? The device's text-to-speech capabilities rankled the Authors Guild, which then pushed Amazon to disable the feature, or at least allow publishers to opt out of it. This has, in turn, gotten the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) up in arms. Today, the NFB is taking to the streets outside the Authors ...

If you've spent any of the last couple of years on the surface of the Earth breathing and talking to people (as opposed to hiding in the depths of the planet with the mole people), you've no doubt heard of GoDaddy and its tradition of airing risque ads during the Super Bowl. The ads always generated quite a bit of attention -- one was even pulled by the network before it could air -- but this ...

Auction site eBay has been suffering at the hands of an online protest over a change in how it charges sellers for listing and selling goods. The change has resulted in a substantial increase in costs for sellers. The changes lowered the initial fees for sellers to list items on eBay, but increased the commission charged on completed sales. Additionally, the feedback system was altered to ...