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MEDIA MATTERS New Amazon feature promotes 'gay' shows 'Genre' of homosexual 'entertainment' highlighted by Unbox movie service Posted: September 12, 2006 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 WorldNetDaily.com
Less than a week after Amazon.com was found recommending "Brokeback Mountain" to a customer who had referenced "The Chronicles of Narnia" and "Lady and the Tramp," another Amazon fan has caught the Internet behemoth promoting "Gay & Lesbian" programming for downloads. The customer, Fred Luffman, told WND he's been a longtime Amazon customer and he saw an announcement about the company's new Unbox feature, which allows customers to download entertainment programming. However, he said he was surprised when he saw the short list of promoted genres including "Gay & Lesbian." Even more surprised, too, when he clicked and opened up the long list to find other genres with much larger selections, and therefore sales potential, left unpromoted. "Nestled nicely between 'Educational & Learning' and 'Kids & Family' is 'Gay and Lesbian,'" Luffman told WND. "They allow you to expand on this section of selections to include many more genres but curiously 'Gay & Lesbian' is among the smallest of offerings in the long list. Given this, why the effort to promote G&L in the short list?" Just a week earlier a woman had been shopping, and after listing the "Chronicles" and "Lady and the Tramp" as interests, Amazon recommended "Brokeback," which tells a story of homosexual cowboys. She said it appeared that there is an agenda at work. In Luffman's situation, the short list includes "Action & Adventure" with 77 choices, "Animation & Cartoons" with 35, "Reality TV" with 51 and others, including "G&L" with 3 choices and "Classic TV" with 5. In the expanded list, but unpromoted in the short list, are "Documentaries" with 110 offerings, "International" with 13, "Mystery" with 38 and even "Westerns' with 14. "I don't know if there's an agenda at the corporate level but I don't doubt there is an agenda among some lower level personnel tasked with web page content," Luffman said. "These kinds of offerings are especially troubling to me as a parent since downloads of this kind can easily bypass most if not all web filtering software." Another WND reader noted such an agenda probably has wider influence on the Internet. "I was assisting my 11-year-old son with a report he needed to do on Lord Bacon," said the father, who asked not to be identified. "I Googled Lord Bacon and received a list of several sites (including Wikipedia)." He noted two links with Bacon's article discussed his alleged homosexuality, "neither of which I considered appropriate for my 11-year-old son." And, he said, when he was searching for the Middle Georgia Radio Association (MGRA), he instead was referred to the "Missouri Gay Rodeo Association." "Based on my experience Google will get you to the GAY websites first," he said. The woman who was recommended "Brokeback," a WND reader and longtime Amazon customer, said she had submitted information that she had purchased "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," she said she already owned "The Chronicles of Narnia" and she rated "Lady and the Tramp." "I can't see any reason for these movies to bring up a recommendation for a movie about homosexual lovers unless someone in Amazon has an agenda (especially in the IT dept)," she wrote. Several messages left with Amazon generated only an e-mail response, in which the company repeated its published policies. It's not the first time an Internet company has been questioned about such situations. WND reported earlier that Google was hosting "Paiderastia: The Boy Love Revival" site on its weblog. And Amazon.com earlier was reported to have been selling subscriptions to the North American Man/Boy Love Association's official magazine. SPECIAL OFFER: To understand the ever-expanding sexual revolution in America, get one of the most-talked-about books of the year, David Kupelian's "The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom." Previous stories: Amazon suggests 'Brokeback' for kids Child-sex book canceled after WND report New book promotes sex with children Bush labeled 'a--hole' in new Google bomb
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