Archive for April 13th, 2009
Heather Has Two Mommies and Just Canceled her Amazon Account
A current kerfuffle on the Internets has to do with Amazon de-ranking GLBT-themed books as reported on the LA Times Jacket Copy blog. Amazon’s policy of removing “adult” content from its rankings seems to be both new and unevenly implemented. On Saturday, self-published author Mark R. Probst noticed that his book had lost its ranking, [...]
Posted: 13 April, 2009 in Commercialization, Idiocy, Information Ethics.
Tags: amazon, censorship, discrimination, intellectual freedom
Comments: 5