Amazon accused of 'BigBrother behaviour' after deleting 1984

telegraph.co.uk
Jul. 19, 2009
Amazon has been forced to fend off accusations of Big Brotherlike behaviour after it quietly erased two George Orwell books from customers' electronic book readers.
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