To be fair: Clay Shirky on #amazonfail


He says we're all villagers with pitchforks who don't want to put them down, even once we find out we were wrong

In a post entitled: The failure of amazonfail

Hmm.

I understand Clay's point, but I'm not sure it's all quite so innocent as that.

Amazon was alerted quite some time ago about these issues, and it took a web shit-storm to wake them up into figuring it out. Am I to give them the benefit of the doubt that they didn't blow off the concerns of those inquiring because the books in question were gay-themed?

Why should I?

OK, maybe it's not some huge, systemic, corporate evil at work here. But we's got issues. I'm not entirely mollified. How are you feeling about it?

Posted: Wed - April 15, 2009 at 05:29 PM       EmailFeedback

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