The Amazon.com mess, and our policy on it

Monsters and Rockets hasn't been online long, and it was only a day or so ago that we started running ads for Amazon products. Unfortunately, mere hours after we started, Amazon got caught up in this ugly controversy about their possible censorship of books with GLBT themes. The facts are still coming in, but while it looks like Amazon has implemented some troubling policies in the last few months, it also looks like the latest, sweeping ban on GLBT books wasn't intentional.

For now we're going to continue advertising Amazon products, but we are prepared to stop if it turns out Amazon is up to anything sleazy or repressive. In the meantime, we feel fairly confident advertising the wares of a company that has a long and (thus far) respectable history.

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