Dec 202018
There have been a lot of developments recently in the wonderful world of online speech and business that you might expect I’d love to rant and rave about. But I haven’t because… well, who needs *another* target on your back?
But now comes this story about small businesses that do legitimate business through Amazon, then discover just how easy it is for scammers half a world away to ruin or outright steal their business and their brand. And what’s worse, Amazon just doesn’t seem to give a damn, quite probably because there are not enough hours in the day for their limited staff to deal with all the legitimate and fraudulent complaints against sellers, so their default seems to be to nuke small businesses at the first hint of trouble.