In efforts to prevent “offensive” titles from popping up and surprising unwitting web surfers, Amazon has taken an aggressive approach, resulting in titles that deal with homosexuality, such as the classic “Heather Has Two Mommies”, and Dan Savage’s “The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant” being stripped of their Amazon ranking, making them much harder to locate on the site.
Sadly, an Amazon search for “homosexuality” will still return the very controversial “A Parent’s Guide To Preventing Homosexuality.” Currently, Amazon execs are claiming this is due to a “glitch” in their tagging system, but it seems likely that this “glitch” is human in origin, and it’s clear to some exactly what politics are being espoused.
You Say Glitch, We Say Fail [Jezebel]
