Don't ever do that marginalization thing
Apr. 17th, 2009 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roadrunnertwiceWait, should I do a follow-up post on that #AmazonFail thing? You all heard about the kinda-sorta resolution from everyone else already, right? Yeah.
So I dunno. I'm surely not in a boycottin' mood; the magnitude of the thing and the associated certainty of its discovery makes me pretty sure that there was no coherent and unified plan behind it.
But the fact that it was obviously some sort of cock-up doesn't mean that it wasn't a suspicious or potentially revealing cock-up. For one thing, we now know that Amazon has a stealthily implemented search-censoring system in place, and that it was already in the habit of playing nanny with no openness or disclosure. This seems like an important thing to know. And the fact that whoever had their finger on the trigger was inclined in the first place to hold gay material to a higher standard of "adult"-ness than straight material is both worrying and unsurprising. In other words, the situation was a fuckup, but the existence of the conditions that enabled the fuckup still implies a certain amount of moral failure. If you get me.
So I'm not in a boycottin' mood, but I'm also disinclined to go on about poor li'l Amazon getting piled-on. They can take their lumps, clean up their act, and we'll all move forward from there.
So I dunno. I'm surely not in a boycottin' mood; the magnitude of the thing and the associated certainty of its discovery makes me pretty sure that there was no coherent and unified plan behind it.
But the fact that it was obviously some sort of cock-up doesn't mean that it wasn't a suspicious or potentially revealing cock-up. For one thing, we now know that Amazon has a stealthily implemented search-censoring system in place, and that it was already in the habit of playing nanny with no openness or disclosure. This seems like an important thing to know. And the fact that whoever had their finger on the trigger was inclined in the first place to hold gay material to a higher standard of "adult"-ness than straight material is both worrying and unsurprising. In other words, the situation was a fuckup, but the existence of the conditions that enabled the fuckup still implies a certain amount of moral failure. If you get me.
So I'm not in a boycottin' mood, but I'm also disinclined to go on about poor li'l Amazon getting piled-on. They can take their lumps, clean up their act, and we'll all move forward from there.
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Date: 2009-04-18 04:19 pm (UTC)