Thank You!!

http://www.afterellen.com/node/48877

It just totally blew off this week.

That is one of the most horrible things I have ever heard of.

Now you suddenly say, the ‘seeming targeting of GLBT books’ – which means, you’re not even sure that they have, nor can in fact prove they had, after you posted enough to make it seem a fact. Plus, now you state that Amazon have ‘rectified the situation’, when in fact nothing needed rectifying in the first place, or Amazon definetely would have given a public apology had they really suddenly ‘attacked’ GLBT books, and if Amazon were to ‘pull crap like that', they’d neither been able to stay at the top for so long, correct. But I have no problems in finding what was said had been removed or censored – none of it.

(Besides, you still haven’t apologised to those not sharing your very aggressive sentiment, over accusing them of condoning Jews deportations in the same breath with censorship, or to be idiots – watch your choice of words here.)

As long as GLBT books are available under whatever ‘ALA’ list, we don’t need censorship scaremongerers like you clutching at straws by now. If you believe what you say Amazon did, YOU can go somewhere else – but don’t force others to do the same or insult them for staying.

As long as there's no real proof, you're alone in this no matter how many share your STILL unproven ‘opinion', not ‘fact'. I boycott a lot of anti-gay or lesbian this or that, and if it were to be proven I'm the first to leave Amazon too – but only ‘then'.

This entire brouhaha could have been avoided when it was first brought to Amazon’s attention back in FEBRUARY. They could have avoided all this unpleasantness (and lost revenue I’m sure) had they taken the complaints seriously and had they informed the public of a “glitch” in the system. Personally, I have no sympathies for them whatsoever.

On the other hand, the seeming targeting of GLBTQ books smelled of censorship and in case people are living under a rock, books with these themes remain on the ALA’s list of most challenged books. One simply cannot help being concerned about this, and like I said before, I am glad that so many people cared enough to take action and flood the blogosphere. If they hadn’t, dollars to doughnuts Amazon would have done nothing to rectify the situation.

It’s kind of backwards to attack those–such as authors–whose very livelihood depends on their books being made available and calling them “alarmist” or a mob. In my view, the fact that people took action and called a giant like Amazon into account–glitch or not–gives me a little hope that the public isn’t totally brainwashed.

So there!

“hamfisted” and “embarrasing”

You are right, Amazon.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/amazon/archives/166329.asp

>>> “What has been interesting are the comments from those people who don’t seem to have an issue with this. There are quite a few who have bought into the “glitch” excuse (which is absolute b.s. and any newb IT professional or even hobbiest will tell you that). These folks claim Amazon’s just doing “business” and trying to target the largest market possible while alienating no one. These are the same people whom more than likely would have turned a blind eye to the deportation of Jews, saying “it’s just good government”.

I guess these idiots don’t understand the meaning of the word CENSORSHIP.

I’m still amazed that healthy, egalitarian and consensual expressions of love are somehow “bad”, but graphic and oftentimes unecessary depictions of violence are “good”.” <<<

I BEG YOUR PARDON!? What has this Amazon issue to do with the Jews, and how dare you bring their past treatment into a discussion about current censorship, accusing those who apparently don’t have an issues with ‘Amazon's (unproven) censorship' would condone something like their deportation!? How dare you bring in old politics into this!?

Get with the issues here, and don’t insult those who still can get their books, gay or otherwise, by simply typing in author or title and forget all the tags and departments and labels – and voila, it’s right there! ALL OF IT! And don’t say ‘we claim Amazon’s just doing ‘business'', of course they are, I believe that's what they're there for! Or accuse those same ‘people' would also think violence is ‘good’ and love ‘bad’ – HOW DARE YOU!?

I for one said that the adult label is applied to everything sexual outright, gay or otherwise, fact – and that other adult themes are not labelled adult, fact. No matter they should be, but simply aren't because the sites have to adhere to some ‘rules' and sorting the stuff and is bloody difficult for a giant like Amazon with hundreds of thousands of items, and ‘tech issues' DO arise frequently. FACT!

I perfectly understand CENSORSHIP, pal, (and I'm not for it per se when it's up to individuals to ‘protect their own interests', but not by saying A is bad when B is not just because they don't like it) – but I’m not an ‘idiot’, just because I don’t ‘see’ it in Amazon’s case. If they show ‘anti-gay' books first than that's simply because obviously more people buy them and reflects the customer numbers, NOT site policies. As long as I can get any book I like from them, I will NOT boycott them, no matter on what page my search will come up or has any ranking, since we in fact STILL don't have any REAL proof they really censored any GLBT books ‘I' highly doubt and can find just fine! Speak for yourself #100!

So in that case, I'm with #102 and #106 this time in addition to #54, since this issue has been completely blown out of proportion by now and looks more like a witchhunt in FACT, with ignorant people throwing insults on top now at NO clear FACTS having been established at all, and the majority is NOT always ‘right', don't forget that.

Before we jump to conclusions there may be a chance that this is not directly Amazon’s fault. One tech site is suggesting that this is the result of a renowned Troll abusing the flagging system on Amazon via scripts.

Gizmodo for the read