http://venturebeat.com/2009/04/13/roundup-amazons-ham-fisted-error-facebooks-baseball-surge-and-more/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:59:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://venturebeat.com/2009/04/13/roundup-amazons-ham-fisted-error-facebooks-baseball-surge-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-875811 ducdebrabant Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:31:42 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=106213#comment-875811 Why won’t Amazon just be honest? I would like to know why the “flip” affected only gay & lesbian subject matter or – in the words of Amazon – “a broad number of categories such as Health, Mind & Body, Reproductive and Sexual Medicine, and Erotica.” Amazon emphasized the latter to suggest that gay content wasn’t targeted, but what do all those areas have in common? Definitely the likelihood that they would touch on homosexuality. Knitting, woodworking, mathematics, the American Revolution, the cavalier poets, scholastic philosophy, the Arian Heresy and the history of baseball seem to have come through unscathed. The works that were affected were obviously tagged in some way that targeted them. Not every book in Reproductive and Sexual Medicine was de-ranked. Books fall into more than one category. What painted the target on a particular book was evidently some identification with gay and lesbian subject matter. When will Amazon stop denying this? Why won’t Amazon just be honest? I would like to know why the “flip” affected only gay & lesbian subject matter or – in the words of Amazon – “a broad number of categories such as Health, Mind & Body, Reproductive and Sexual Medicine, and Erotica.” Amazon emphasized the latter to suggest that gay content wasn’t targeted, but what do all those areas have in common? Definitely the likelihood that they would touch on homosexuality. Knitting, woodworking, mathematics, the American Revolution, the cavalier poets, scholastic philosophy, the Arian Heresy and the history of baseball seem to have come through unscathed. The works that were affected were obviously tagged in some way that targeted them. Not every book in Reproductive and Sexual Medicine was de-ranked. Books fall into more than one category. What painted the target on a particular book was evidently some identification with gay and lesbian subject matter. When will Amazon stop denying this?

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