{"id":10004,"date":"2009-07-18T13:50:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T17:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/Amazoncom-Wont-Go-Orwellian-Again-Promise"},"modified":"2009-07-18T13:50:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T17:50:11","slug":"amazoncom-wont-go-orwellian-again-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=10004","title":{"rendered":"Amazon.com Won&#8217;t Go Orwellian Again: Promise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another PR mess for Amazon.com.&nbsp; Just as they seem to have settled the row over cracked Kindles (although the lawsuit continues!), users awoke Friday morning to find e-books remotely deleted from their Kindles, and the PR storm started up all over again.The Big Brother-ishness of the deletions was only heightened by the fact that the books in question were by George Orwell: &#8220;Animal Farm&#8221; and yes, &#8220;1984.&#8221; Amazon.com did refund people&#8217;s money, but it brought the wrath of not just end users, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another PR mess for Amazon.com.&nbsp; Just as they seem to have settled the row over cracked Kindles (although the lawsuit continues!), users awoke Friday morning to find e-books remotely deleted from their Kindles, and the PR storm started up all over again.The Big Brother-ishness of the deletions was only heightened by the fact that the books in question were by George Orwell: &#8220;Animal Farm&#8221; and yes, &#8220;1984.&#8221; Amazon.com did refund people&#8217;s money, but it brought the wrath of not just end users, but <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=10004\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}