I’m sure you’ve heard as it’s been all over the internet this weekend that Amazon.com had a “glitch” which caused all of their gay and lesbian books to be classified as Adult books, thus removing their sales ranking (which is the basis of their search engine algorithums). Now, if you search for books using the term “homosexuality”, the very first item that comes up is A Parent’s Guide to Preventing Homosexuality. Hmm.. sounds like SOMEONE at Amazon.com is a big homophobe for a “glitch” this big and intentional to happen.

I have always been skeptical of Amazon.com since doing volunteer research work for the now extinct BuyBlue.org which researched financial contributions of CEO’s of top businesses and corporations. CEOs of Amazon.com, unsurprisingly, gave generously to Bush Jr’s presidential campaign.

Stop supporting Amazon.com and support businesses that aren’t royally screwing you over. Just because they are the biggest online retailer, doesn’t mean they are the only one. Try Powells.com, who tweeted “That certainly is disturbing. Fortunately, Powell’s will never censor this material” after hearing about the Amazon controversy.

AMAZON EPIC FAIL!

UPDATE: Turns out the whole controversy was the works of a hacker and not Amazon.com, but whatever. Major corporations that support republicans still suck. So don’t give them your money.

UPDATE: So was it really a hacker or did Amazon hire a hacker to take the blame so they can slip out of this mess?

guess we’ll find out as things unfold…