{"id":1664,"date":"2009-04-12T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2020-12-09T16:05:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:05:21","slug":"news-update-the-amazon-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/news-update-the-amazon-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"News update &#8211; the Amazon ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Amazon has introduced a form of censorship in its book listings \u2013 according to a statement the company has just issued &#39;In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude &#8220;adult&#8221; material from appearing in some searches and best seller lists. Since these lists are generated using sales ranks, adult materials must also be excluded from that feature.&#39; We know at least one IS&amp;T author whose book, which contains a &#39;gay crime&#39; element, has already fallen foul of this new policy&#8230;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">If you want to lodge a protest about this, vote here <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><a style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/1\/in-protest-at-amazons-new-adult-policy\" onmousedown=\"&#39;UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this),\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span>http:\/\/www.thepetitionsite<\/span><wbr><span class=\"word_break\"><\/span><span>.com\/1\/in-protest-at-amazo<\/span><wbr><span class=\"word_break\"><\/span>ns-new-adult-policy<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has introduced a form of censorship in its book listings \u2013 according to a statement the company has just issued &#39;In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude &#8220;adult&#8221; material from appearing in some searches and best seller lists. Since these lists are generated using sales ranks, adult materials must also be excluded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23665,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/23665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}