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Originally Posted by nekokami
"Many books have now been fixed..." so they're still intending to use this filtering code. 
As an option "Eliminate items with these tags from my shopping experience," fine. I'm not interested in erotica myself. But that should be a choice left to the user.
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I wouldn't necessarily take that statement to mean that they still intend on filtering but I did see some rumors that Amazon had sent letters to publishers saying they were going to do some filtering for adult content. I haven't seen any evidence that's true. You know how rumors fly with stuff like this. Saying that "Many books have now been fixed" just says to me that more are yet to be fixed and doesn't say anything at all about the criteria for "fixed".
I agree with you about the customer option. I'm fine if they want to give people a choice. I think they would be wise, however, to stay out of trying to define the categories. That way lies madness. Heck, I'd like to have a search that just shows me good books. Trouble is, how do you decide what's good? t's like Judge Potter Stewart's definition of pornography: "I know it when I see it." I know what I think is a good book just like I know what I think is "adult". I'm sure many people would disagree with me. You have content at the far ends of the spectrum that won't get much debate but the stuff in the middle will be a battleground. I can't see how they can decide what is adult or not without pissing off a bunch of people either way. They should let people make their own filters. Of course that gets difficult when people start abusing the tagging system.