Books With "Questionable Content" Being Deleted From ebookstores In Sweeping Ban 548
Nate the greatest writes "The Kernel started an uproar last week when they 'discovered' that the Kindle Store and other ebookstores sell adult content in the erotica category. None of the content is actually illegal, but it is icky enough that the major ebookstores decided to respond by removing anything even vaguely questionable. Unfortunately, they went too far, resulting in an act of censorship the likes of which we haven't seen since Paypal went after the indie ebook distributor Smashwords. The Daily Mail reports that WH Smith went so far as to shut down their website with the promise that it won't reopen until all self-published titles have been removed, and according to BBC News, B&N is also deleting content. Numerous authors have reported on KBoards that Amazon and B&N have removed far more than just the titles that feature questionable content like pseudo-incest; they appear to be running keyword searches and removing any title that mentions innocuous words like babysitter, sister, or teenager. And they're not the only ones; there's a new report that Kobo has jumped on the ban wagon as well."
This is just like 1984! (Score:4, Funny)
I assume. I can't actually read it, it's banned because Wiston and Julia have sex while Big Brother is watching and that's incest or something.
Re:Romance and Erotica is not the same (Score:5, Funny)
Women want more (about 200 pages) foreplay than men, what else is new?
No rape or incest? (Score:4, Funny)
So we can't buy bibles on line anymore?
Re:Hmmm (Score:2, Funny)
Did you never wonder why Amazon named its ebook reader Kindle?
Re:Facts please. (Score:5, Funny)
At one point I wanted to self-republish the Old Testament, but with a cover which made it look like a filthy, violent hardcore porn novel, spattered with choice quotes about rape, incest, torture, etc.
I quite like the idea of being thrown in jail for sex offences for merely distributing a copy of the well-known book which can now be judged by its cover.
Re:Shade of Grey (lol) (Score:5, Funny)
Speaking of. Who the fuck is "The Kernel", anyway?
You might have heard about his fried chicken...
Tony Blair = The Taliban (Score:0, Funny)
Every major body in the UK (political, social, business, media etc) is headed by Tony Blair loyalists. The situation mirrors Russia, where Putin loyalists control every key aspect of that nation. Blair and Putin are like blood-brothers, and it was Blair who personally protected Putin from the wrath of the EU at a time when Putin was waging his own genocidal wars. Putin, of course, first came to power on the back of another 9/11-style false flag, the Moscow Apartment Block Bombings.
Tony Blair, when he took his warmongering to a whole new level (leading to the holocausts we are seeing play out in Libya and Syria), appeared to leave official office, and using his new status as a Roman Catholic, created a 'multi-faith' organisation which he heads. This organisation was used as the trojan horse to recruit traitors within both Syria and Libya, who would then oversee (with the promise of billions of dollars placed in their collective Swiss bank accounts) 'revolutions' against the popular (and previously extremely stable) regimes. In both these cases, Islamic extremists of the most depraved category were promised absolute control of these 'Muslim' nations that actually had effectively secular governments.
When you use religion, as Blair does, you MUST work the pseudo-moral angle. You tell people, via the mainstream media you control, that they MUST have constant concern about what their neighbours read, think, watch, and do in their bedrooms. We all know that prurient interest in the lives of others is a form of sexual fetish in itself. Seeing people 'crucified' for their sexuality has been the main form of titillation in the tabloid press forever.
All normal Humans indulge in sexual fantasy. For females, so-called 'rape' fantasies rank no.1 in all accurate surveys. Fantasy is just that- fantasy- and DOES NOT represent any desire to bring real world atrocities into the lives of the people enjoying the fantasy. Therefore the fantasy of 'rape' is NOT the same class of thing as the real-life crime of rape, and more than computer game 'violence' is in any sense analogous to real violence.
Tony Blair knows this distinction is vulnerable to media attack campaigns, targeting the guilt mechanisms found in most Humans. "You are a pervert" is a VERY powerful attack phrase against most ordinary people. Activate guilt, fear, self-loathing, and witch-hunting, and you create a 'mob' of people ripe for every form of manipulation.
Blair wants the West to GO TO WAR. A global war. A new world war. For this to happen, he needs to activate mob mentality all across the West. In Britain, Blair is creating a Taliban 'morality' using the combined power of the Muslim, Roman Catholic, and Church of England hierarchy. Blair's manipulation of the Muslims is particularly vile, as he has the support of the Islamic extremists who wish to be the enforcers on the 'streets', and the senior Muslims that Blair has placed into positions of power. Ordinary British Muslims, who are almost entirely moderate and liberal, are being squeezed hard between these two Muslim power-bases that Blair controls.
Blair's 'moral panics' ensure almost EVERY male with some power or influence in the UK has aspects of their private life that Blair can use to blackmail them, via GCHQ full surveillance intelligence gathering. The example Blair sets in the UK is used by Blair as an ideal model of control that Blair sells to every world leader he meets (and Blair is on a constant round of political manipulation of the planet's most powerful people on a weekly basis- Obama does nothing without explicit guidance from Tony Blair, for instance).
The most interesting aspect about Blair's war against the BDSM lifestyle is that BDSM (and related sexual behaviour and thought) has long been considered the sexual 'deviancy' of the rich and powerful, the educated and the ambitious. In the UK, since the 60s, it has been a long-standing 'joke' that the most influential 'straight' British politicians all love to visit their "Miss Whiplash" whenever they have
Re:Shade of Grey (lol) (Score:4, Funny)
"Sex is wrong unless done through a hole in a bed sheet."
Or a wall.
Re:Shade of Grey (lol) (Score:5, Funny)
If you smoke after sex, you're doing it wrong.... or at least with insufficient lubrication.
Re:Romance and Erotica is not the same (Score:5, Funny)
Erotica is when you use a feather. Pornography is when you use the whole chicken.
IIRC, this is from Terry Pratchett
Re:Dear MINISTRY OF TRUTH (Score:4, Funny)
Ezekiel 23:19-20:
(19)Yet she increased her whorings, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt (20)and lusted after her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose emission was like that of stallions.
Or alternative translation:
(19)Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
(20)For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Modern translation:
This cougar gave it up all over town and half the state, thinking she was some young trick. Back in the day, this ho had all kind of guys get up in her snizz. And they was hung like horses and came buckets.