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2009.04.14 10.11 A friend of mine says, and I agree: A bunch of my friends are now threatening to boycott Amazon.com. I say: Don't do it! Amazon.com is about the only place out there dedicated to getting pretty much everything available for one-stop shopping. They're clearly not wanting to stop carrying the merchandise that is somewhat hard to find - unlike most other mainstream outlets. It was a major clusterfuck, but it wasn't intentional. (nor was it targeted at any one area, despite what got the play.) (as I understand it, it was badly configured metadata + translation issues + holiday weekend + twitter/blogoverse = "OMG They're targeting us again!!!!") From another friend, via various GBLT fora: After hearing from people on the inside at Amazon, I am convinced it was in fact, a 'glitch,'" he says on his Web site. "Well, more like user error--some idiot editing code for one of the many international versions of Amazon mixed up the difference between 'adult' and 'erotic' and 'sexuality.' All the sites are tied together, so editing one affected all for blacklisting, and ta-da, you get the situation." Comes down to the old maxim of never ascribe to malice what you can ascribe to stupidity. |
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