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Amazon fixes LGBT book ban, explains the glitch
Amazon claimed that the problem was a glitch, but thousands of people posted opinionated messages to Twitter using the tag #AmazonFail.
Now Amazon has started to respond. First, the company says, over 57,000 titles were affected and they weren't all titles that dealt with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered themes. Some were "erotic" titles, while others dealt with health issues.
It appears that the problem can be traced to a single employee of Amazon's French web site who mistakenly flagged a number of categories as "adult." The error spread out to the entire Amazon network.
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Subscribe to commentsMartin-TApr 14th 2009 12:20PM
They say it was someone from France but I think it was Canadians!
(South Park's "Blame Canada" song still has some relevance when scapegoating rears it's ugly head).
RocketboyApr 14th 2009 1:29PM
Wait, this wasn't an attempt from Amazon to annoy large segments of the population?
Wow! Who'd-a thunk it?
(PS: Playing reactionary dog-pile is just as useful as forwarding that e-mail that was already carbon copied 50 times, and dispoven on snopes years ago. It's even worse now when you do it on Twitter)