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AmazonFAIL: How Online Social Tools Can Wreak Havoc — and Repair It

By Deanna Zandt

April 13, 2009 - 1:09pm

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Over the holiday weekend, a firestorm let loose on the Internet: For no apparent reason, books on Amazon.com with feminist, LGBT and sexual-empowerment themes were removed from the sales rankings, numbers that show how well a product is performing on the website.

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Is This Book (Or This Author) Too Gay for Amazon?

Reader diary posted by Heather Corinna, Scarleteen.com

April 13, 2009 - 11:34am

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My book, like many, many others, has recently been deranked by Amazon. The books this primarily appears to have impacted are those by LGBT authors, young adult or children's books addressing sexuality, and some feminist titles.

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Censoring Student Media

By Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

February 18, 2009 - 4:47pm

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Last week, 3,000 copies of the New School Free Press were stolen on the day it was published.


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A Slippery Slope: The POPLINE Controversy

By Pablo Rodriguez MD, Association of Reproductive Health Professionals

April 11, 2008 - 9:48am

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Call it censored, call it buried, call it lost - the search term “abortion” was all of the above for approximately a month on POPLINE. “Contraception,” “sexuality,” and “reproductive health” are the next stopwords, unless we remain vigilant and protest loudly.


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Update: Your Search for "Abortion" Now Yields Something

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

April 3, 2008 - 11:00am

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Why did the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's medical database black out the word "abortion" from its searchable terms? Does federal funding equal censorship? Update: The Dean of the School issues a statement and restores the word.


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Verizon, Can You Hear Us Now?

By Cristina Page, Moderator, OnCommonGround

September 28, 2007 - 12:58pm

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Silencing both sides of the reproductive rights debate is as insidious as silencing just one.


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