Amazon, thy name is suck.

[secondlina]

I like Amazon for the same reasons everybody else does. 20$ off expensive things, good fast shipping, convinient web searches... As a service, Amazon is super. At least as long as you think that they put all the books on their website. But they don't. Oh no. Amazon fails at freedom of speech.

Problems Amazon have been accused in the past : Killing small businesses, restricting french books on their canadian website even though canada is bilingual and Amazon as a french version in europ (amazon.fr), stealing webtexts and publishing them under another label... And you know, as much as these things suck, they can still be excused under the fact that they are a big business and big businesses suck that way.

However, when you start backed up scientology and removing gay litterature from your website, we've got a problem. Gay litterature (aka books about homosexuality, books with homosexual characters or writers and self-help books regarding alternate sexualities) is now classified as *adult* lit. But not in the sense that it is ment for intelligent, mature readers. In the porn sense. Beautiful, best-selling books with gay characters are now in the *sexy sex bowchicawowow* section and do not appear in any best selling rankings or search engine suggestions. They are basically impossible to find, unless you know the exact title. Oh, but guess what? Porn is not ranked as adult yet. Hilarious.

But wait, no, not ALL gay litterature is gone. Oh NO! Amazon kept the best books around. Everything Pro-gay is gone. But books like "A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality" kept its rank. No anti-gay books were affected by this. Only books that showed homosexuality in a positive light. But books that show homosexuality as a perversion or books like these that teach to heal homosexuality thru hypnotic prayers are ranked NUMBER ONE in the search engine.

I'm not gay. So i'm technically not affected by this. But you know what, yesterday I watched the film Milk and I was happy when I left the theatre that homosexuality is now accepted in most places. So when I see something like Amazon, that is international, take money from american churches to *ban* (or as they say - Rank) positive homosexual books, it burns me up! Even, I might have been able to accept it if it was just controversial books, but they even ban books for being written by gay writters or having gay characters. Unless it's a best-seller.

Amazon, thy name is sucky sanctimonious money bags.

I'm sorry, but I think this is the last straw for me. I may never buy from amazon again. I don't mind paying the extra 20$ anymore and having to walk to a book store (god forbid - walking! Oh  NOES!). This might be a useles action and it probably won't affect Amazon much but it makes me feel a lot better.

-The angry isa

EDIT:  Rumors on the internet are now claiming this is some kind of hoax / troll thing. I don't know if that's true. But just so you guys know, this might just be a big not funny website munipulation. Oh well... Still seems kinda true to me. Bah, hopefully it works out one way or another.

Comments

[yukinoomoni.livejournal.com]

No kidding. I will give indigo points for having some titles on their site and in their stores on gay tolerance, but the titles involving marriage purity and heterosexuality far outnumber them. Our society is so backwards. We claim to be a Christian state, so we ban normal things like gay love, marriage, and healthy sex (prostitution and otherwise), but when it comes to outright hetero sex, flashing breasts, and outright disgusting displays on TV, we're all for it.

This whole thing just proves my point: that while North America is prosperous, the priorities are ALL WRONG.