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I think 'ham-fisted' is a good way of admitting guilt, even if they haven't said they're sorry outright. They were trying to filter adult books and some yahoo thought that should include a lot of tags that it shouldn't.
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So it was a hacker, amazon is in the clear, they always had my confidence.
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Even the biggest companies make cock-ups - it's human error. Does no one remember that a few weeks ago, for a while, every search result on Google was tagged with a "this has been reported as an unsafe site" flag?
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Hotmail was down for over 2 hours the other night Amazon glitches up the entire system. the flag as inaproriate hacker theory is still valid in my eyes. I still dont think they got the WHOLE thing sorted out yet. knowing how corporations work, I knew that it wasnt On purpose by the company, but some small group. Last edited by Andybaby; 04-14-2009 at 03:02 AM. |
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It may not have been "all about" gay and lesbian titles, but gay books and authors were clearly and obviously targeted by this "glitch."
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I'm not actually sure that's the case, since my own book Stealing Light got hit. The sales ranking disappeared from my Amazon UK page for several hours, and I figured it was just a glitch. Nobody's 'targeting' my book for gay or lesbian content, because there isn't any. It's spaceship-and-explosions space opera, and yet it was obviously affected. That's a database error and foot-in-mouth Amazon rep saying exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time, not a blackhearted attempt to do evil.
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I never said "only" Gay and Lesbian titles and authors were affected, but it certainly appears that they were hit by this glitch while similar straight books and authors were largely left alone. |
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Another point that makes me wonder if there really isn't some censoring going on at Amazon, compare the US cover of this book of Lesbian erotica:
http://www.amazon.com/Cherry-Red-Div...9697556&sr=1-7 With the UK version: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cherry-Red-D...697617&sr=1-19 It hardly seems racy enough to black out; no worse than the cover of a slightly bawdy romance novel. |
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Of course, because of all the backlash Amazon could be doing a serious backpedal and telling us it was a glitch when it was in fact what they intended to do all along.
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I remember back in ye olde days of the internet getting a spam email from some woman trying to organize a protest against Yahoo because when the searched for the N word, groups like NAACP were top hits. She thought that yahoo had returned that because they had catalogged NAACP and others this way. She was new to the Internet and didn't quite get how search engines worked. NAACP came up because that word was on their site. It's not surprising since they talk about hate. In this case, the GLBT-related works are a target for the hate but it's still all about words placed there by others. That's why I think Amazon needs to stay the heck out of filtering altogether. They either have to categorize everything themselves or they have to find a way to separate "good" tags from ones that are left with some other agenda. Either way, they're going to piss people off. I say let people set up their own tag filters if they like but they should back away from this pit of quicksand as fast as they can. |
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