Comments | nahemaraxe: A glitch, eh?

nahemaraxe

A glitch, eh?

Apr 13, 2009 09:11

Yesterday evening I learned about the new act of failboat made in Amazon, which consists in censoring GLBT books by stripping them of their sales ranking. Well done, guys. What's next? You could - I don't know, I'm throwing idea around here - promote the reestablishments of portions of cities in which members of a minority group live, or suggest a ( Read more... )

did you get what you deserve?, don't you people ever die?, i'm surrounded by idiots, execute humanity y/y?, i shit you not, skeery things, sit on this, big disasters, tragic with a capital t, inner excruciating spiritual pain, srs bznz

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sorrowful_eagle April 13 2009, 10:37:51 UTC

Surely by their own admission then, they should be excluding a lot of (for example) comic books and graphic novels, i.e. Watchmen. I'd say that had adult content in it; it certainly isn't for the little sprogs who like pretending they're Superman or Spiderman...

Also, I wonder if Dita Von Teese's book is excluded because hehe, I'd say that while most of the pictures in there are somewhat tasteful, it's still 'adult content' and I wouldn't really want a kid to see some of that stuff.

Amazon is the current captain of the Fail Boat!