Lovings Lounge

Web is atwitter with the newest outrage in the battle with censorship - the bookseller giant Amazon has tipped the scales between the free speech and corporate interest this weekend.

The rankings have been stripped from many adult and some non-adult books (like “Heather Has Two Mommies”), mostly gay and lesbian, making them harder or impossible to find in search results. A robot glitch? A deliberate policy change? We won’t know until Monday, but some of the authors of adult books have gotten a response that Amazon intends to deliberately throttle “adult” authors.

The highly disproportionate number of LGBT titles, even bestsellers, that got caught in the ‘net makes what’s happening even more troublesome. (more…)

What did it take to go to jail and be fined a minimum of $50,000 per day ? Show bare breasts, or write about playing with them on the Internet. Or, provide medical info for free. Where, in Iran? Nope, right here in the US - until Wednesday. (more…)