Re: [UUPoly-L] Anti-gay discrimination on Amazon.com -- or justaBantown troll?

["Emily M.-R. B." <greystone.house@pacbell.net>]

Hmmm....  "accident"?

That's an interesting way of sidestepping the question of causation. 
Accident in the sense of insufficient protection from external manipulation? 
Or accident in the sense of insufficient investment in software quality 
assurance?  Or something else?

On the one hand, I suppose it doesn't matter.  They're "fixing" the problem, 
or so they claim.  On the other hand, I think it might be important for the 
truth to out in this instance....  If it was triggered deliberately from 
outside, it's important that people know it.

IMHO, of course.  :)

Emily

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Brown" <keithb@nfnc.org>
To: <uupoly-l@uupa.org>
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: [UUPoly-L] Anti-gay discrimination on Amazon.com -- or 
justaBantown troll?


> This from Amazon...
>
> This is an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error for a company that
> prides itself on offering complete selection.
>
>   It has been misreported that the issue was limited to Gay & Lesbian
> themed titles - in fact, it impacted 57,310 books in a number of broad
> categories such as Health, Mind & Body, Reproductive & Sexual Medicine, 
> and
> Erotica.  This problem impacted books not just in the United States but
> globally.  It affected not just sales rank but also had the effect of
> removing the books from Amazon's main product search.
>
>   Many books have now been fixed and we're in the process of fixing the
> remainder as quickly as possible, and we intend to implement new measures 
> to
> make this kind of accident less likely to occur in the future.
>
> Amazon.com IR
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