Amazon FAIL
Apr. 12th, 2009 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
axesladeOkay, if you're on twitter and following pretty much anyone, I'm sure you've heard about this already, buuutt...
Amazon removes sales-rankings of GLBT and other 'adult' literature
Included are various GLBT memoirs and YA books which are definitely not adult, such as Alex Sanchez's Rainbow Boys. As someone on twitter as put it because apparently queer=porn O_o
EDIT: I am kind of praying that it is not a concious act by Amazon, but something like this:
It's obvious Amazon has some sort of automatic mechanism that marks a book as "adult" after too many people have complained about it. It's also obvious that there aren't too many people using this feature, as indicated by the easy availability (and search ranking) of pornography and sex toys and other seemingly "objectionable" materials, otherwise almost all of those items would have been flagged by this point. So somebody is going around and very deliberately flagging only LGBT(QQI)/feminist/survivor content on Amazon until it is unranked and becomes much more difficult to find. To the outside world, this looks like deliberate censorship on the part of Amazon, since Amazon operates the web application in question. To me, this looks like one of two things:
Some "Family"-type organization astroturfing Amazon in an attempt to rid the world of EVIL PRO-HOMOSEXUAL FILTH!!
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(Source: http://tehdely.livejournal.com/88823.html)
Oh, hai Warriors for Innocence and the great Strikethrough of '07!
Even if it is WFI like trolls...seriously amazon? You're like freaking fanfiction.net/fictionpress and lj (if I could back up everything, I would probably leave lj like I left ff.net, but that's another rant) Never evaluating what's flagged, just pullin' it and not saying anything until the masses get angry and then saying it's a glitch and you're sooooooo sorry.
Sigh
Amazon removes sales-rankings of GLBT and other 'adult' literature
Included are various GLBT memoirs and YA books which are definitely not adult, such as Alex Sanchez's Rainbow Boys. As someone on twitter as put it because apparently queer=porn O_o
EDIT: I am kind of praying that it is not a concious act by Amazon, but something like this:
It's obvious Amazon has some sort of automatic mechanism that marks a book as "adult" after too many people have complained about it. It's also obvious that there aren't too many people using this feature, as indicated by the easy availability (and search ranking) of pornography and sex toys and other seemingly "objectionable" materials, otherwise almost all of those items would have been flagged by this point. So somebody is going around and very deliberately flagging only LGBT(QQI)/feminist/survivor content on Amazon until it is unranked and becomes much more difficult to find. To the outside world, this looks like deliberate censorship on the part of Amazon, since Amazon operates the web application in question. To me, this looks like one of two things:
Some "Family"-type organization astroturfing Amazon in an attempt to rid the world of EVIL PRO-HOMOSEXUAL FILTH!!
...
(Source: http://tehdely.livejournal.com/88823.html)
Oh, hai Warriors for Innocence and the great Strikethrough of '07!
Even if it is WFI like trolls...seriously amazon? You're like freaking fanfiction.net/fictionpress and lj (if I could back up everything, I would probably leave lj like I left ff.net, but that's another rant) Never evaluating what's flagged, just pullin' it and not saying anything until the masses get angry and then saying it's a glitch and you're sooooooo sorry.
Sigh
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on 2009-04-13 02:24 am (UTC)Still, it's the principle of the matter. That's just retarded. You don't see me going around and flagging books or authors I don't like. Ugh.
What did FF.net do, by chance? I know they used to have an NC-17 feature and then removed it, but was there something else they did?
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on 2009-04-13 02:33 am (UTC)FF.net..sigh. I shouldn't have said I left as the accounts I had with them and their offshoot, FictionPress, are actually still there. But many years ago, I had a story taken down by Fiction Press with no explantion as to why. I'm figuring it was becasue it was a pro-choice poem thing, someone got pissy and flagged it, and the ff folks didn't actually review it. Didn't help that soon after I lost the only copy I had of said poem. I believe I continued posting on ff.net/fictionpress after that, but I was a little more...wary after that.