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Amazon fail: straight outta Bantown?

So. Amazon did something that caused homosexuality-related books to become much harder to find through their system. Given Amazon's market position that is a big deal for anyone buying or selling such books. Some say it extends to feminism-related books, or certain other kinds of books; I'm not fully convinced of its scope. Most people agree that it doesn't extend to much if any heterosexual porn. There is also much debate and speculation over exactly what, technically, Amazon did, and to what degree the books were automatically as opposed to manually selected. I'm sure nobody on the Net will be surprised by what happened next. The part that interests me is an item by "tehdely" in which he claims that the whole affair was orchestrated by trolls - and that so were Strikethrough/Boldthrough, Nipplegate, and some other massive instances of Teh Drama. I'm interested in such things, of course, so here are a few thoughts.

(13 April 2009)