It's A Technical Glitch, Cries Amazon!

[stewardess]

A couple of sources confirm that Amazon is very sorry and is backing the sales ranking censorship off.

Argument in favor of it being a genuine technical glitch: It seems Amazon tried this two months ago and changed their minds. Somebody better check the effing changelog, quick

Comments

[utbe]

Well it's good that they're moving to fix this because it wasn't going unnoticed. I even saw this on ONTD http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/34095137.html

[stewardess]

That was a very nice dumbledore macro. :D

[hubbit]

You've seen this, I presume?

[stewardess]

No, but I see they are drawing the same conclusion I did -- that the author's experience two months ago argues against a technical glitch.

[dangerous_47]

*Sigh*

Just yeah.

[stewardess]

And now the Publisher's Weekly article won't load as lawyers are consulted. *rolls eyes*

[dangerous_47]

Yeah, or maybe everyone went to read it and that breaks the internet.

That stuff has happened with other places before.

But your lawyer theory makes sense too.

[nilla]

Screencap of PW Article

I'm not surprised they tried this before... Amazon got caught with its cock out and now they're trying to backpedal but really. We have pics screencaps to prove their idiocy!!

[nilla]

The mobile version of the PW article is still available.

[stewardess]

Oh for shit's sake. These homophobia motivated corporate censorship moves always go down the same damn way.

standard procedure

[stewardess]

1. Issue asshatted canned response
2. Claim technical error
3. Claim ignorance; everyone's on vacation; I just work here.
4. Two days later, issue official statement full of fail. "We don't think that gay material is appropriate for children. Not that we mean to suggest gays RECRUIT. That would be wrong."
5. Four days later, claim technical glitch.

[hubbit]

I commemorated today's phenomenon here...