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My point is that they should have known in advance that adult titles were going to be filtered. Instead, they tagged their GLBT stuff as adult, and it got filtered.
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Uh, HOW? I think you and I are thinking different things when we say "filtered". When I say "filtered" in this content, I mean "stripped of Amazon rank, not showing in search results all over the site, not showing in sidebars and other nifty 'other people bought this' features, not even PAYING THE PUBLISHER ROYALTIES". What do you mean when you say "filtered"? If you mean what happened in this case, there's really no point in us continuing to talk past each other.
OTOH, if you mean the (useless, imo) Google SafeSearch-type stuff, okay, whatever. It does raise the question of why you interpret the publisher's complaint as them whining about their book getting filtered in a legitimate and transparent manner; what does that have to do with this whole situation in the first place? It smacks of trying to refocus the conversation on the victims and paint them as at fault when that is blatantly wrong, and a pointless derail to boot.
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Originally Posted by sirbruce;
They are however still a "mainstream" bookstore, and in that sense the hide the porno just like most everyone else.
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I don't CARE if they "hide the porno" so long as I have control over what is hidden from me. In this case, it appears like I do not, so continuing to talk about whether it is appropriate or not that they "hide the porno" is useless. Until they show more of an inclination toward transparency than "it was a glitch, honest!", I am going to continue believing that they ARE filtering out things I don't know about, and mistreating publishers and authors and so forth.