Topic: LGBT (Read 60211 times)

Arc · « **Reply #160 on:** April 11, 2009, 07:44:06 AM »

Quote from: Romosome on April 10, 2009, 12:09:21 PM

Apparently Youtube had the greenscreen audition tapes for those "real people", but they've been pulled from a copyright claim.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDaIQTWowL0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-owFysc0gs

Royal☭ · « **Reply #161 on:** April 12, 2009, 04:07:17 PM »

Amazon has decided that any book about homosexuality (well, not anti-homosexuality) is "erotic" and must be removed from their rankings. I think that's a little ridiculous. It's also silly that Amazon needs to block certain works from their rankings anyway.

TA · « **Reply #162 on:** April 12, 2009, 04:31:37 PM »

And meanwhile, the searches with those books removed ...

Kazz · « **Reply #163 on:** April 12, 2009, 05:03:56 PM »

Quote from: TA on April 12, 2009, 04:31:37 PM

this is precisely what most kids end up doing, faced with this shit

The Artist Formerly Known As Yoji · « **Reply #164 on:** April 12, 2009, 05:23:25 PM »

And for my next impression, chocking outrage!

Lady Duke · « **Reply #165 on:** April 12, 2009, 05:44:09 PM »

That kaneda screenshot look sort of squished.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #166 on:** April 12, 2009, 05:46:32 PM »

I knew it was all made up.

Brentai · « **Reply #167 on:** April 12, 2009, 08:17:58 PM »

Amazon claims it was an accident.

Take that with as much salt as you like, but it did seem like an out-of-character move in the first place.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #168 on:** April 12, 2009, 08:41:27 PM »

Hard to go one way or the other on this one. On the one hand, doing something like this does seem weirdly out of character for Amazon (notably as people who like money and haven't really expressed any desire to censor).

On the other hand, this 'glitch' did target a really specific set of books.

Also, the other of the original article points out that a service representative supports the "Gay = Adult" line. Of course, as in any company there's probably a chance that service representatives have no fucking clue what the rest of the company might be doing at any moment.

Romosome · « **Reply #169 on:** April 12, 2009, 08:57:49 PM »

I'm curious. Is it possible that this was someone within the company doing shit they weren't supposed to? Could one stupid-enough person screw with the database that easily? JD or someone might know.

PR makes sense even if that happened, most PR reps seem to just be trained to make up anything to excuse whatever the hell they think the company may be doing.

sei · « **Reply #170 on:** April 13, 2009, 01:28:33 AM »

The culprit wouldn't necessarily need to touch the database; he could also just fuck with part of the application.

If something were categorized as "gay," and any logic-based filtration mechanisms exist on the application level, it'd be pretty trivial to add a line of code (or add "|| book.category == category.find_by_name('lovesthebutt')" to some existing line) that'd result in hiding things normally not hidden.

like salami

JDigital · « **Reply #171 on:** April 13, 2009, 02:01:52 AM »

My guess: They put a block on adult category books, which caught everything in a search for "homosexual" except for Christian and self-help books.

Of course, it's also possible that some self-righteous employee removed individual books. It's feasible that Amazon has the ability to remove individual books from search listings.

Detonator · « **Reply #172 on:** April 13, 2009, 06:38:14 AM »

Quote from: JDigital on April 13, 2009, 02:01:52 AM

My guess: They put a block on adult category books, which caught everything in a search for "homosexual" except for Christian and self-help books.

Well, the official story from Amazon is that they put a block on "adult books". The question is why this is inextricably linked with gay books that don't have adult content at all. Any why the Christian self-help books don't seem to be affected at all.

Arc · « **Reply #173 on:** April 13, 2009, 07:02:20 AM »

Lynne Cheney reported to be furious over the news.

JDigital · « **Reply #174 on:** April 13, 2009, 02:25:22 PM »

A guy on Livejournal claims he hacked Amazon to do it. Another guy on Livejournal says the first guy is trolling.

Brentai · « **Reply #175 on:** April 13, 2009, 03:41:23 PM »

Where else would you find hackers sophisticated enough to break into one of the biggest e-commerce sites in the world?

Current Mood: Anarchistic

(Actually he claims to have abused a feature of Amazon, not actually hacked into it. But still, no.)

Brentai · « **Reply #176 on:** April 14, 2009, 06:05:37 AM »

Brentai · « **Reply #177 on:** April 20, 2009, 09:40:15 AM »

So my birth state (that'd be New York, yes I'm not really a West Coast person) is making some very loud noises about being the next to give the greenlight to gay marriage. It's almost as if California managed to start a movement by not being free-thinkers. This side of the country is so damned weird.

Don't have a good article to link to, but it's been on and off the front page for a while so just go look for yourself.

Oh, and Rudy Giuliani is of course against it... wait what?

OH SHIT RUDY YOU'VE GOT THE SAME DISEASE MCCAIN HAD!!! GET YOURSELF TO A DOCTOR BEFORE YOU START THINKING SARAH PALIN IS A QUALIFIED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE!!!

Büge · « **Reply #178 on:** April 20, 2009, 10:01:59 AM »

That disease is like herpes.

Romosome · « **Reply #179 on:** April 20, 2009, 12:08:35 PM »

I am still waiting to see a huge important political type figure standing up to talk about protecting the sanctity of marriage who hasn't been divorced or cheated on their wife multiple times.

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