Comments on: amazon’s rank.

By: jgg

jgg — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:25:07 +0000

Assuming for the moment that corporate greed is the sole motivation for Amazon’s actions, it would be counter-productive to eliminate gay/lesbian/alternative adult titles as a general policy considering that roughly 30% (or so) of the population is of that persuasion and a viable market segment for Amazon’s sales.

I just don’t see Amazon imploding that much of it’s potential income in the middle of a world recession (did I say depression?). On the other hand, I have yet to see an “adult” search criteria by which potentially offending titles could be tagged and retrieved by interested buyers over some arbitrary minimum age limit (say, eighteen?).

In which case, it’s not a far reach to postulate that a group of homophobic zealots have managed to infiltrate the middle layers of Amazon corporate where the administration of such foul censorship can and would occur.

By: Miss Communication

Miss Communication — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:11:15 +0000

I am glad i saw this. I was totally unaware! I work in the adult entertainment biz and she this type of stuff all the time … sadly i have one more thing to boycott now =-/

By: debauchette

debauchette — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:45:30 +0000

I’d love to believe that. Melissa Gira spoke to a coder at Amazon who said that 58,000 titles have been flagged as “adult” internally, so it’s hard to say. Maybe it’s a little of both, but I’m inclined to believe Amazon’s taking steps toward restricting its product availability.

http://melissagira.com/sexerati/2009/04/13/amazon-coder-someone-internally-tagged-thousands-of-titles-adult/

By: Convictus

Convictus — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:42:27 +0000

Site appears to have been hacked, a known troll is claiming it, and told how he did it. It would appear to be a legit flag to Amazon because it abused the Flagging system, but since the flagging system has been taken offline the troll is claiming it.

http://i.gizmodo.com/5210424/hacker-claims-he-shoved-amazon-into-the-closet-using-inappropriate-flag-exploit

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What were they thinking omnibus « The Clockwork Chartophylax — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:35:41 +0000

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By: gtpeach

gtpeach — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:49:27 +0000

Ellen DeGeneres’ biography is apparently “adult” content, and Amazon’s release said the whole thing was a “glitch” despite specifically responding to inquiries form author-customers with their new “Adult” filter policies….

Here’s my blog on the topic, including Amazon’s repsonse to a customer, list of deranked (and somestill ranked but definitely “adult”) titles, etc.

http://gtpeachleigh.blogspot.com/2009/04/speedy-sunday.html

By: Sexerati | Updates: Amazon removing queer, sexuality titles from front page search

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:09:40 +0000

[...] marked explicit porn titles weren’t targeted when young adult books were. meta_writer (via debauchette) lists all the targeted books identifed so far. This entry was written by Melissa Gira Grant, [...]