{"id":842,"date":"2009-04-13T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T08:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/?p=842"},"modified":"2009-04-13T09:31:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T08:31:54","slug":"what-had-me-all-riled-up-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/13\/what-had-me-all-riled-up-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"What had me all riled up yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"

After enjoying church and a nice Easter meal with my parents, I came back online to find that Amazon.com had removed sales rankings from many LGBT-themed books, making it impossible to find them with a normal Amazon search. An automated response to complaints stated that those books had been removed because of “adult content” – however, not only did many sexually explicit heterosexual books keep their ranking, but completely non-explicit books like lesbian parenting guides, LGBT- themed books for young adults or autobiographies by gay men and women didn’t.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, my head exploded with RAGE. \ud83d\ude42 By now Amazon has backpedalled, stating the whole thing was caused by a “glitch”. I find it quite reassuring that online outrage (for example, we google bombed<\/A> the term Amazon Rank<\/A>, making it #1 in Google search results<\/a>) resulted in an immediate reaction.<\/p>\n

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The image links to an overview of the whole issue by an author who was affected by this all the way back in February. I also found this recent AfterElton blogpost<\/a> summarising quite nicely what bothers me so much about the whole thing, glitch or no glitch. And now I’ll go back to enjoying my day off…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After enjoying church and a nice Easter meal with my parents, I came back online to find that Amazon.com had removed sales rankings from many LGBT-themed books, making it impossible to find them with a normal Amazon search. An automated response to complaints stated that those books had been removed because of “adult content” – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","category-life","category-links","category-memes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}