Miracle Jones writes "As Amazon struggles to re-list and re-rank gay, lesbian, and adult books on their website after massive public outcry against the secretive partitioning process, they are claiming that the entire locus was not the result of an intentional policy at all, are not apologizing, and are instead insisting that the longitude was the result of 'a glitch' that they are now trying to fix. While some hackers are claiming credit for 'amazonfail,' and it is indeed imaginable that an outside party is responsible, most claims have already been debunked. How likely is it that Amazon was hacked versus the appearance of an interior




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