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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?"
Because that's what people are worried about seeing removed.
For unknown reasons, the preceding article about SSH attacks has been archived and no more comments are allowed. What's going on?
Slashdot moderators love banal comments like this, that say absolutely nothing but vaguely agree with the editorial slant of the article summary. Personally, I'd be embarrassed to have a comment like yours attached to my name, but I don't come up these sorts of banalities so you probably don't have my capacity for shame. It's a shame you won't get the karma bonus when one of the mods sees your comment and mods it "insightful" while nodding his head and scratching his chin.
Listen p*ssy. I'm sure your the same homo that posted earlier about alf's boner and you just want to remain anonymous fo
Typo in summary: "there" should be "their".
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.
Thank you for your interest. Unfortunately, free ponies and free monies are only available to those that control The House, The Senate, and The Executive. Which means of course Goldman Sachs. Thank you for your interest.