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Books With "Questionable Content" Being Deleted From ebookstores In Sweeping Ban
Nate the greatest writes "The Kernel started an uproar last week when they 'discovered' that the Kindle Store and other ebookstores sell adult content in the erotica category. None of the content is actually illegal, but it is icky enough that the major ebookstores decided to respond by removing anything even vaguely questionable. Unfortunately, they went too far, resulting in an act of censorship the likes of which we haven't seen since Paypal went after the indie ebook distributor Smashwords. The Daily Mail reports that WH Smith went so far as to shut down their website with the promise that it won't reopen until all self-published titles have been removed, and according to BBC News, B&N is also deleting content. Numerous authors have reported on KBoards that Amazon and B&N have removed far more than just the titles that feature questionable content like pseudo-incest; they appear to be running keyword searches and removing any title that mentions innocuous words like babysitter, sister, or teenager. And they're not the only ones; there's a new report that Kobo has jumped on the ban wagon as well."
I assume. I can't actually read it, it's banned because Wiston and Julia have sex while Big Brother is watching and that's incest or something.
Women want more (about 200 pages) foreplay than men, what else is new?
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So we can't buy bibles on line anymore?
Have gnu, will travel.
Did you never wonder why Amazon named its ebook reader Kindle?
At one point I wanted to self-republish the Old Testament, but with a cover which made it look like a filthy, violent hardcore porn novel, spattered with choice quotes about rape, incest, torture, etc.
I quite like the idea of being thrown in jail for sex offences for merely distributing a copy of the well-known book which can now be judged by its cover.
Speaking of. Who the fuck is "The Kernel", anyway?
You might have heard about his fried chicken...
"Sex is wrong unless done through a hole in a bed sheet."
Or a wall.
If you smoke after sex, you're doing it wrong.... or at least with insufficient lubrication.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Erotica is when you use a feather. Pornography is when you use the whole chicken.
IIRC, this is from Terry Pratchett
Ezekiel 23:19-20:
(19)Yet she increased her whorings, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt (20)and lusted after her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose emission was like that of stallions.
Or alternative translation:
(19)Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
(20)For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Modern translation:
This cougar gave it up all over town and half the state, thinking she was some young trick. Back in the day, this ho had all kind of guys get up in her snizz. And they was hung like horses and came buckets.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon