Message I sent to students about Amazonfail....

[danielleleigh]

Today I found out that Amazon.com has "deranked" books with supposed explicit sexual content. Except that isn't really true -- they've stopped listing sales ranking books with homosexual and transgender themes. Novels, histories, even film criticism! Yet somehow they still continue to rank books with explicit sexuality so long as that sexuality

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[swanjun]

*signs*

[danielleleigh]

Great! I'm sure they'll fix this and maybe it really was a "glitch" as they claim but my god. It still rings as one of the most homophobic things I've seen in a LONG time....