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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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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...
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