Posts Tagged ‘Stephen Fry’

amazonfail – 10 unanswered questions

Jon Reed | 10:43 am 15 Apr 09 Comments 5

If you’ve been asleep for the last two days, there’s a very handy #amazonfail flowchart over at the National Coalition Against Censorship to help you catch up.
But it’s over now, right? Amazon have said it was an error, they’re fixing it, it’s dropped from the top 10 trending topics on Twitter – get over it [...]

Tags: #amazonfail, Amazon, censorship, Dubai Festival, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Margaret Atwood, National Coalition Against Censorship, Stephen Fry, Twitter —

An open letter to Jeff Bezos

Jon Reed | 10:19 pm 12 Apr 09 Comments 13

Dear Jeff,
I don’t know if you use Twitter, but you might be aware of something called #amazonfail, currently the most talked-about topic among the network of 5m+ users. This is an online expression of dismay at Amazon’s new and apparently discriminatory censorship policy.
If the version circulating on the Internet is correct, your new policy of [...]

Tags: #amazonfail, Amazon, amazon rank, banned books, Brokeback Mountain, censorship, D.H. Lawrence, discrimination, homophobia, Jeanette Winterson, Jeff Bezos, Lady Chatterley's Lover, LGBT, Stephen Fry —