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

[Boyd Smith <boydw.smith@yahoo.com>]

I had the same thought.  This could be some form of cyber attack.  I would be courious if it was just amazon or others as well.

BWS

--- On Mon, 4/13/09, Emily M.-R. B. <greystone.house@pacbell.net> wrote:

> From: Emily M.-R. B. <greystone.house@pacbell.net>
> Subject: Re: [UUPoly-L] Anti-gay discrimination on Amazon.com -- or justaBantown troll?
> To: uupoly-l@uupa.org
> Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 11:02 PM
> 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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