It's A Technical Glitch, Cries Amazon!
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.
Argument against it being a technical glitch: the customer service rep gave the same canned reply in February as this time around.
Edit: the Associated Press has picked up the story, and it's spreading everywhere.
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.
Argument against it being a technical glitch: the customer service rep gave the same canned reply in February as this time around.
Edit: the Associated Press has picked up the story, and it's spreading everywhere.