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Originally Posted by GlennD
... It boggles my mind that a store that sells very adult books, movies, toys and other items specifically targetted at gay and lesbian customers would be labelled as homophobic simply because those items don't come up in a default search from the front page.....
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The point is not filtering.
The point is, filtering results WITHOUT DISCLOSING to the searcher, that such filtering has taken place.
If Amazon had a preference setting, where you can chose to enable or disable filtering, nobody would have a problem. Or, if they disclosed, clearly, that the returned results are omitting certain items.
I don't know how to state this more clearly. Maybe, think of it as taking the Fifth vs. lying.
P.S. BTW, technically Amazon is a site for adults, by definition: they require a credit card for you to have an account. If adults can make purchasing decisions, presumably they can make search decisions as well.