Frothy Paradise

smalltowngayblog:

girlfriendisahomo:

The hacker behind the GLBT censorship on Amazon says:

“Amazon removed its customer-based reporting of adult books yesterday. I guess my game is up! Here’s a nice piece I like to call ‘how to cause moral outrage from the entire Internet in ten lines of code.’

I really hate reputation systems based on user input. This started a while back on Craigslist, when I was trying to score chicks to do heroin with. My listings like “looking to get tarred and pleasured” and “Searching for a heroine to do the paronym of this sentence’s lexical subject” kept getting flagged. The audacity of the San Francisco gay community disgusted me. They would flag my ads down but searching craigslist for “pnp” or “tina” reveals tons of hairy dudes searching for other hairy dudes to do meth with. So I decided to get them back, and cause a few hundred thousand queers some outrage.”

Seriously. Wow.

Um. Only problem is that this Gawker story isn’t true. Amazon has already come forward and said it was a “cataloging error.” Weev is, in the words of one publishing insider, “an attention-seeking asshole.”