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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."
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.
Um, if you had a pony it wouldn't be free.
Though, if you do get your hands on a pony, you can make a free lunch out of it.
There has got to be some kind of humor found in a guy saying that who goes by Alf's Boner...
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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...
What do you really expect from Amazon.
A patent application for one-click book-burning?
But it's _sex_ for gosh sakes. Censoring sex is as American as apple pie and unprovoked wars of aggression.