Okay , maybe Amazon is off the sweetener . Thewell - bang troll Weevis claiming thathe ’s really responsiblefor Amazon’ssudden surge of LGBT prudishness . WhichValleywag saysactually makes gumption .
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-deems-lgbt-books-too-adult-for-search-best-sell-5209149
It ’s startingly simple : It does n’t take very many vote at all to get a product flagged as “ out or keeping ” and reboot off the ranking . He says he make a script that generated a lean of product Idaho for every gay and lesbian book on Amazon . From there , he just needed a whole gang of people to swag the books as inappropriate , which was n’t hard , because simply get someone to go the URL of a successful flag would reckon as another one . Using an invisible iframe on popular web site owned by friend and a group of “ third - worlders ” he hired to register accounts , he beget enough votes to de - list gay and lesbian books en masse shot .
lend credenza to his claims , Valleywag notice that the “ flag as inappropriate ” feature is presently disabled . Free sovereignty for inappropriate books ! [ LivejournalviaValleywag ]
http://valleywag.gawker.com/5210142/why-it-makes-sense-that-a-hackers-behind-amazons-big-gay-outrage
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