I Love Banned Books or Censorship = Bad
Apr. 15th, 2009 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amelia_petkovaI take it that most people have heard of the amazon.com scandal by this point? The briefest summary I can give: certain books (primarily GLBT-related, though not limited strictly to that) have been removed from sales ratings and searches, and people are pissed. I can't sum it up much better than the following people have done, so here's some reading. (This is just as much for my own benefit, so I can keep track of the pieces I want to remember.)
I first found out about it through an entry at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cleolinda's account. One of the comments I remember best is a response to the "it's a glitch in out system" claim that is along the lines of, "No. A glitch is when every book title starting with 'The' is removed, not this great variety of books."
While reading the LJ ofellen_kuskner I found another good article on Salon.
Through these ones you can find links to other articles; it's like a virtual collapse of dominoes. I've rarely ordered from amazon in the past (keep in mind, I do very little shopping on the internet) and now I certainly don't intend to in the future.
Remember: it's never too early to start planning for Banned Books Week!
I've heard that Lady Chatterly's Lover was de-ranked. Seriously? We need to get an ouija board and let Mr. Lawrence that his novel is still causing controversy.
I first found out about it through an entry at
cleolinda's account. One of the comments I remember best is a response to the "it's a glitch in out system" claim that is along the lines of, "No. A glitch is when every book title starting with 'The' is removed, not this great variety of books."While reading the LJ of
ellen_kuskner I found another good article on Salon.Through these ones you can find links to other articles; it's like a virtual collapse of dominoes. I've rarely ordered from amazon in the past (keep in mind, I do very little shopping on the internet) and now I certainly don't intend to in the future.
Remember: it's never too early to start planning for Banned Books Week!
I've heard that Lady Chatterly's Lover was de-ranked. Seriously? We need to get an ouija board and let Mr. Lawrence that his novel is still causing controversy.
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Date: 2009-04-15 03:11 pm (UTC)I'd advise a bit of restraint on the self-righteous fury so many people seem to be caught up in. It was a legitimate mistake; while the scale seems remarkable, this is something that can and will happen. And, yes, they definitely do deserve the same benefit of the doubt as you or I deserve. To quote another commenter, "When you *can't* hear that there was a reasonable explanation that wasn't bigotry, it disinclines people to listen to your reports when it really *is* a case of fucked-uppitude."