Comments | onthetide: Amazon de-ranking "adult" books, including GLBTQ literature.

onthetide

Amazon de-ranking "adult" books, including GLBTQ literature.

Apr 12, 2009 21:06

cleolinda wrote an excellent summary of the whole thing hereBasically, Amazon is de-ranking anything they find to be "adult" in content. This means these books won't show up on their bestseller list no matter how many copies are sold, and may be excluded from searches, damaging sales of the books. This filter is being applied arbitrarily and is including ( Read more... )

books, glbtq

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onthetide April 13 2009, 03:15:20 UTC

Today? IS A VERY BAD DAY.

I just want to sit in my room, cry, and eat chocolate pudding.

onthetide April 13 2009, 03:16:02 UTC

BUT WHY AM I FAT.

onthetide April 13 2009, 03:16:33 UTC

Ugly resized lobster is ugly.

make_me_stay April 13 2009, 04:04:01 UTC

I have been so angry since I heard about this this morning. Hopefully (hopefully, hopefully) enough people have jumped up and down to make Amazon rethink their new (non)policy.

As much as I hate censorship of any kind, I wouldn't even mind so much if it was a reasonably blanket adult filter, instead of such flagrant targeting of the GLBTQ, feminist and disabled communities.

Argh. There aren't enough words for this amount of stupid. Did they think no-one would notice? That no-one would care?