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Message: <blockquote data-quote="smokewolf" data-source="post: 2669565" data-attributes="member: 16839">The links themselves are not an issue for me, its the loss of an unbias news source that I hate to see gone. By restricting what someone can write (which is your right, it is your place) while at the same time promoting a commercial enterprise in which you have a vested interest creates a very bias press engine.I would have no problem if this policy had been different, such as a blanket no PR or no links even to ENSHOP or drop the news side altogether. But your stance no longer places you in a neutral position. You have taken a side now in the industry. You have a commerical entity directly ties to your news agency which now has been given preferential treatment over your competitors. I think everyone that uses you as a news service needs to feel that they can trust the news they get to be unbias, honest and complete. And this relationship erodes that trust.Imagine what would happen if there is a financial issue that arises out of ENSHOP with one or more vendors. What if the problem is on your end (say misappropiation of funds)? What if the problem is on their end (plagerized material or inflated sales or theft of others materials)? As someone who is places themselves in a news delivery position, any of the information regarding such matters is slanted (even if there is an attempt at honesty). The fact is you are a participant and are no longer independant.And there is the whole matter of reviews now that there is more of a financial investment that those products you are selling sale well. With ENPUB, because of the air of transparency and the fact that so many of us were actually purchasing ENPUB material there was no reason to doubt the accuracy and intention of reviews. But now, any publisher who receives a low review and is not on your ENSHOP and then brings it up will further erode any sense of impartiality that you try to create. They do not have to right, they only need to create doubt in peoples mind. Or if a product is marked consistently low elsewheres but is ranked rather high here, again people are more than capable of inventing their own conspiracies.</blockquote>

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