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lishesquex) wrote2009-04-13 08:31 pm
lishesquex) wrote2009-04-13 08:31 pm
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Amazon Rank
So I'm a bit late jumping on the bandwagon, but for those who don't know already, Amazon has been arbitrarily removing the sales rankings from material they deem "adult", which includes a large number of gay, lesbian, queer, feminist books, including non-fiction, young adult books with gay content and things like Ellen DeGeneres' biography. The effect is that when you search for these books, they don't show up anymore. Instead, you get results like A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality, followed by For the Bible Tells Me So, followed by Can Homosexuality Be Healed?. There is not a single pro-gay book on that first page. Seriously... what the fuck?
And then there's Amazon's unbelievable double standards, in which highly questionable mainstream/heterosexual material (e.g. Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds) remain listed when even children's books with a gay angle have been removed? Bullshit.
So yeah. Sign the petition, join the Google-bombing, and let Amazon have a piece of your mind (you'll have to log in to do so). I did, and all I got in response from them was: "Thanks for contacting us. We recently discovered a glitch in our systems and it's being fixed." I promptly started following #glitchmyass on twitter.
However, my wrath has been somewhat alleviated by the very amusing pastime of finding homophobic books such as A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality to give them tags like "gay porn" only to find that other users have already given them tags like "bigotry", "hate", "delusional", "keeping america stupid", "breathtaking insanity", "projecting closeted tendencies", "epic fail", "waste of a good tree", "bdsm", and "it doesn't work". Lol.
And then there's Amazon's unbelievable double standards, in which highly questionable mainstream/heterosexual material (e.g. Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds) remain listed when even children's books with a gay angle have been removed? Bullshit.
So yeah. Sign the petition, join the Google-bombing, and let Amazon have a piece of your mind (you'll have to log in to do so). I did, and all I got in response from them was: "Thanks for contacting us. We recently discovered a glitch in our systems and it's being fixed." I promptly started following #glitchmyass on twitter.
However, my wrath has been somewhat alleviated by the very amusing pastime of finding homophobic books such as A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality to give them tags like "gay porn" only to find that other users have already given them tags like "bigotry", "hate", "delusional", "keeping america stupid", "breathtaking insanity", "projecting closeted tendencies", "epic fail", "waste of a good tree", "bdsm", and "it doesn't work". Lol.
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I was following this...
Man, if anything, those curing homosexuality books should be ranked down for fuckwittery. o_O False information and hysteria is much more dangerous to society.
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