Archive for the tag "censorship"
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
Selective Dissemination of Information
A researcher recently discovered something odd: she couldn’t use “abortion” in a keyword search Popline, a standard database on reproductive health hosted at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins. What the–? Turns out, it’s now a stop word. Like “a” and “the.” Something you want excluded from a search. What the–? Turns [...]
Posted: 4 April, 2008 in Idiocy, Information Ethics, Political political.
Tags: abortion, censorship, Popline, stop words
Comments: 6