Amazon Killed Popular Feature at Demand of China’s Communist Party

Amazon stopped offering customer ratings and reviews of books sold in China at the request of the Chinese Communist Party, according to a Reuters investigation.

The Chinese government ordered Amazon to stop allowing customers to review books following less-than-perfect ratings of a collection of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s writings, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the matter.

Amazon partnered with a state-owned firm called China International Book Trading Corp and created a portal, which it called China Books, that promotes Chinese Communist Party material and forbids negative reviews.

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