Amazon reclassifies LGBT & other books as "adult"
WTF is up with Amazon hiding/unranking LGBT and feminist books as "adult" today? I learned about it via Twitter #amazonfail while in the midst of framing the BattleStar Galactica propaganda poster ("Mechanics! ... Those Vipers Won't Fix Themselves!") I got for Chanukah/Christmas last year.
According to one tweet I saw, affected books included such titles as The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk.
Now I am just going to sit here and be embarrassed at how often I have shopped on Amazon.
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I believe that Amazon has rescinded that foolish decision in response to the uproar it caused.
Actually, it looks like it wasn't even a "decision", but an attack by outside hackers using Amazon's flagging system.
Really? I'm surprised. Though you'd think hackers, people so skilled with computers, would be able to do something productive with their abilities rather than screw around with other people's websites for shits and giggles.
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