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Amazon Culls "Offensive" Books From Search System
Miracle Jones writes "Amazon has instituted an overnight policy that removes books that may be deemed offensive from their search system, despite the sales rank of the book and also irrespective of any complaints. Bloggers such as Ed Champion are calling for a 'link and book boycott,' asking people to remove links to Amazon from their web pages and stop buying books from them until the policy is reversed. Will this be bad business for Amazon, or will their new policies keep them out of trouble as they continue to grow and replace bookstores?"
Apparently leather-fetish nazi self-help materials.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
actually from TFA that was the stuff amazon LEFT.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
a/s/l?
90/male/brazil
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Probably just cowboy neil. I gave him some soap and deodorant for his birthday but he didn't get the hint.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Uhm...do you have the contact information for the Ministry of Fairness, Niceness, and Free Ponies at Taxpayer Expense? I would like a free pony.
The only change I can believe in is what I find in my couch cushions.
90/male/brazil
I need to tell you something. I'm Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC.
Exactly. I just did a search for "cock" and found a pile of excellent materials on Amazon.
What's the fucking problem that people have? Sales ranking? Does that dildo really feel that much better in your asshole when you know it's the North American dildo sales leader?
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Think of it this way, you're sticking a moulded rubber cock into your ass that is the most popular rubber cock in North America. Thousands and thousands of identical cocks have been inserted into the anuses of men across the continent. That might be a turn on to some people!
Um, if you had a pony it wouldn't be free.
Hence the Libertarian credo: TANSTAAFP!
"In prison you just have to shut your eyes and take it. Here you have to shut your eyes and give it."
Though, if you do get your hands on a pony, you can make a free lunch out of it.
You're not looking so bright yourself, Sparky.
There has got to be some kind of humor found in a guy saying that who goes by Alf's Boner...
Xaotik Designs
It's just kowtowing to religious conservatives who are scared of the truth. Personally, I bet that Utah is behind it because they didn't want everyone to know how much porn they were buying.
"...how much coffee they were..."
There. Fixed it for you. Trust me. If you know Mormons, they are just as offended by coffee as they by porn.
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
Try 'gay' and you'll hit the jackpot.
Somehow I doubt that's quite how I'd describe it.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
And I thought the only nazis here were grammar related...
Pay attention, class. Here is a fine example of living proof that being in possession of disposable income is, at best, only weakly correlated to intelligence.
512 MB RAM, 20 GB disk, 200 GB transfer, five datacenters. $19.95/month.
What do you really expect from Amazon.
A patent application for one-click book-burning?
Though, if you do get your hands on a pony, you can make a free lunch out of it.
Hey, good idea! I wonder if Amazon has any cookbooks...
But it's _sex_ for gosh sakes. Censoring sex is as American as apple pie and unprovoked wars of aggression.