The tag theory still doesn't explain either why this started small then increased nor why authors were told this was a deliberate policy, not a problem.
The consistency of the book removal with the tags seems to make it true that books were removed by their metadata, but doesn't explain why some books were removed earlier and then more later. That looks a lot more like a policy being implemented and taking time to be more largely implemented than it looks like a mistake.
The policy is too stupid to make sense as an actual policy, so I buy that some mistake happened between the start of the policy and this implementation, but it sure does look like initially some books with homosexual content were removed deliberately when similar books without homosexual content were not.
Which is part of why I await an explanation from Amazon. I don't feel any explanation will be satisfying until it also explains why they told people different things before they told us whatever they're currently telling us.
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Date: 2009-04-14 02:27 pm (UTC)The consistency of the book removal with the tags seems to make it true that books were removed by their metadata, but doesn't explain why some books were removed earlier and then more later. That looks a lot more like a policy being implemented and taking time to be more largely implemented than it looks like a mistake.
The policy is too stupid to make sense as an actual policy, so I buy that some mistake happened between the start of the policy and this implementation, but it sure does look like initially some books with homosexual content were removed deliberately when similar books without homosexual content were not.
Which is part of why I await an explanation from Amazon. I don't feel any explanation will be satisfying until it also explains why they told people different things before they told us whatever they're currently telling us.