Uproar on the internet
Again? you ask. Yes, again, I say, and I also say, good lord, I was out of the house for what, two hours, and see what happened? But in this case, I think it's certainly worth taking a look at what's going on (Amazon.com appear to be being utter and absolute homophobic arseholes, to put it in a nutshell), and a good place to start is at meta_writer and work
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Heh. Me too. Thank god for email, you know? I'm always a titch cheesed off when a person (or site) only gives a phone number for contact info. Often if it's a choice of call or do without, I do without. And they do without my business. :-P
including the infamous wave of account strike-outs
I guess I feel like that's rain happening in another state, you know? I don't feel the need to bring in the hammock *just* yet. And it seems to me that when any site oversteps its bounds, be it LJ, or Amazon, for 'adult content', breastfeeding icons, what have you, there's usually enough outrage that they learn to back the eff off.
I guess I've been on enough sites and boards to know that when one group cries "I don't like the moderation over here, there's no fweedom, it's so oppwessive, I'm gonna go make my OWN clubhouse and my OWN rules"....that eventually someone over there will up and decide to hate those rules as well. It's just the way of things. I guess we all want to feel some semblance of control. I don't particularly feel 'out' of control over here, so it doesn't bother me. But if it bothers someone else, well, to each their own. I just dislike the idea of friends and people I admire jumping ship because they perceive a threat that I'm just not seeing. It affects my enjoyment of *this* site. :-(
(Now, I just need to find a 'new' youtube...where amazing fanvideos aren't taken down because someone's got their knickers in a twist. *That*, I'd be up for.)
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