Amazon is being monumentally stupid. That, or someone has hacked them. I’m betting it’s the former, because it’s just harder to believe in their lack of security than it is in their intelligence.
They have, apparently, decided to make it harder to find pr0n on their website. Okay, fine. Stupid, since people shopping at Amazon presumably have credit cards and are therefore adults, but fine.
The problem comes in when anything with the tag “gay” seems to be hidden as well. (not “you can’t find it.” It’s a matter of search terms and ranking–so you can’t outright tell they’ve made it harder to find. Read here for a clearer explanation.)
Set aside everything else for the moment, all the “it’s their right!” and “lolcensorshipwut?” Here’s why I’m fuming and going through customer service rep after CS rep (politely, of course) trying to cancel my order of two days ago.
I’m furious because these fools are hurting my friends. How dare you tell these wonderful people that who they love makes them less? How dare you hide my friends, Amazon, how dare you tell them they don’t matter as much as others?
FUCK THAT.
I am not blindly jumping on a wagon, here–one of my friends got a book from his DAD for Easter, and that book is one of the ones deranked. He checked; I checked. I have searched these titles. It’s true, as of the last time I looked, right before I began this entry.
And so, with a rage on behalf of my friends, I participate. When YA gay love stories (YA=Young Adult. As in, Harry Potter, Eragon and the Little House books) are hidden but Girls Gone Wild and Playboy aren’t, because of an “adult” label? You’re fucking right I’m pissed enough to swear.
This is called a GoogleBomb (but it’s just a link–I believe in censure of idiots, not harming of anyone.) Amazon Rank