homophobia & Amazon.com

http://vashtan.livejournal.com/490173.html
http://community.livejournal.com/meta_writer/11369.html

Amazon removes rankings from books with homosexual characters, including from at least one YA book, because they don't wish to include "adult" content in their rankings out of respect to the range of their membership.

Queer content does not inherently equal sexual or "adult" content.

We've got a big problem on our hands with this one.

If you find a targetted media product, add to list here: http://community.livejournal.com/meta_writer/11992.html

Amazon petition

The list of books involved is now really long.

It seems it's happening based on key words and search terms. Stuff we now know to have been hit with this includes a bunch of YA books, Jacqueline Carey's books, a number of biographies and autobiographies (including John Barrowman's), a range of self-help books, and even books from both conservative and liberal perspectives that address the topic of homosexuality in terms of the Bible.


petition: http://tinyurl.com/d5dbo3

other means of contact:
Jeffrey Bezos, CEO
AMAZON.COM
1200 12th Avenue South
Seattle, Washington 98144-2734
United States
Phone: 206-266-1000
Fax: 206-622-2405

remember StrikeThrough?

This is Amazon's blog: http://tinyurl.com/38rx2y

LJ'ers, you know what to do!

(heads-up from vashtan).

off-line

Off to DWNY meet to see new Doctor Who. I'll be back to keep fighting the good fight in a few hours after I've had some timey-wimey goodness and have picked up a jar of Nutella for the household.