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Amazon Named the "Most Reputable Company"

Posted by samzenpus on from the one-click-heroes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Amazon has been named the most reputable company in the US this year (up from 21st place last year), according to the sixth annual list of the 150 Most Reputable Companies from advisory firm Reputation Institute (RI), in partnership with Forbes Media. The list is based on RI's US RepTrak Pulse Study, which measures trust, esteem, admiration, and good feelings consumers have towards the largest 150 companies based on revenue in the US. The ratings are analyzed from nearly 33,000 online consumer responses taken in January and February."

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  1. Still not enough by toby · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...to make me regret closing my account in protest at the treatment of Wikileaks.

    Fuck Amazon.

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    you had me at #!
    1. Re:Still not enough by slashqwerty · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Wikileaks broke Amazon's rules.

      What rules were those? According to the article those rules were:

      WikiLeaks "doesn't own or otherwise control all the rights to this classified content,"

      This is clearly targeted at copyright infringers. Any content written by a US government employee in the course of their job is public domain.

      Amazon's terms of service also require that content "will not cause injury to any person or entity." Yet he said "it is not credible that the extraordinary volume of 250,000 classified documents that WikiLeaks is publishing could have been carefully redacted in such a way as to ensure that they weren't putting innocent people in jeopardy."

      Wikileaks has not release 250,000 cables. Today, after four months of redacting and releasing documents Wikileaks has released a grand total of 6,321 documents.

      You have got to be pretty gullible to believe government pressure had nothing to do with Amazon's decision.

  2. Re:They obviously didn't poll any state government by Scowler · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Being "reputable" means not always placing your profit interests first and foremost. Besides, if they actively negotiate with these states they may find a solution acceptable to those states, that actually does not sting as bad as expected. And, anyways, many other e-tailers collect those taxes and still manage to prosper.

  3. Re:They obviously didn't poll any state government by demonlapin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In this case, the tax avoiders are the citizens who order things off the internet without paying their proper use tax. Not Amazon - at most, their duty is to collect the tax, not to pay it.

    Incidentally, to the extent that the Internet is something "the government made for them", it's a product of the federal government - which does not collect sales tax.