But not so fast. "It is apparent...that the de-ranking and de-search-resulting of a number of books with gay and lesbian content on Amazon was the result of an essentially unintentional software problem," says Nerd World. Clay Shirky has a long mea culpa of sorts for his initially strong reaction to "an injustice that didn’t actually occur.... What we can’t do if we want to think of ourselves as people who care about injustice, is to fight it in places it doesn’t exist."
A commenter there added: "I can’t help but wonder whether this shows a way in which communications systems like Twitter, with their extremely narrow “bandwidth”, tend to squeeze out the room for complexity, nuance and uncertainty in favor of assumptions, misinformation and simplistic, emotional arguments." Amazon is likely to survive. In fact, it "may be facilitating close to a third of all e-commerce in the US," Tech Trader Daily reports. Now
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