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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Sorry, but I call BS.
The biggest dust-up was well over a year ago, due to a minor change in one of the databases; no books were pulled and the error was quickly corrected.
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You're wrong about that. The actual coding might have been minor but it created a sweeping change that affected nearly 60,000 gay-oriented books while leaving very similar straight-oriented titles alone and anti-gay titles alone. You can shout BS all you want, that doesn't make it any less true.
As to what actually happened, Amazon's official explanation was that it was "ham-fisted" and a "glitch," while leaving "glitch" officially unexplained. How can a "glitch" be ham-fisted? That attribute requires human judgment and action. Someone somewhere, widely reported to be someone in France, changed the classification of gay material ONLY, causing it to drop off a whole lot of lists. How does a "glitch" target material so specifically? I don't buy it.
And as for being quickly corrected, the problem first popped up in February, it wasn't fixed until almost the middle of April, despite complaints. It wasn't until there was an international outcry that something was done.
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n this case, Amazon pulled a book of straight "incest erotica" a week or two ago, as well as a book featuring pedophilia. You're clearly unaware of the recent context -- both in terms of how absolutely minor this is, and how the few similar isolated incidents are not focusing on gay erotica.
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You're completely wrong, and overly presumptuous. I'm very well aware of recent events. So, don't assume you tell me what I know and what I don't. Further, you may personally consider this a minor incident. I do not.
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And, of course, there is an absolute ton of gay erotica and other pro-gay books that are still available, not to mention extending health insurance benefits to domestic partners.
Referring to this incident as evidence of a pattern of anti-gay discrimination is, to put it mildly, absurdly hyperbolic and excessively sensitive.
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Which means exactly jack-squat regarding this particular case. And, I never said that Amazon was an anti-gay company, as you seem to be implying. I said this isn't the first time gay material has been affected while similar straight material was left alone. That is completely true. You can wave your hands and pass it off as no big deal, I don't choose to do so.
Finally, I'll just leave your insulting language alone to speak for you.