Comments on: BDSM News Digest – April 2009 http://islandofpain.com/2009/05/03/bdsm-news-digest-april-2009/ Living BDSM as a Second Life and in Real Life Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:35:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cloud Bracken http://islandofpain.com/2009/05/03/bdsm-news-digest-april-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-3468 Cloud Bracken Wed, 06 May 2009 09:12:32 +0000 http://islandofpain.com/?p=754#comment-3468 Here's another missed :) and thanks for contributing them: http://news.scotsman.com/politics/MacAskill-says-no-to-legalising.5127624.jp From the Scotsman "MSPs yesterday heard an appeal that adults who indulge in consensual bondage, sado-masochism and similar practices should be exonerated from the threat of prosecution. Patrick Harvie, the Green MSP, told a Holyrood committee the present law was an "anomaly". But he dropped a bid to change the law after Kenny MacAskill, the justice minister, and other MSPs said lifting the threat of prosecution could provide a loophole for those charged with domestic abuse and sex crimes...." ::sigh:: Here’s another missed :) and thanks for contributing them: http://news.scotsman.com/politics/MacAskill-says-no-to-legalising.5127624.jp From the Scotsman “MSPs yesterday heard an appeal that adults who indulge in consensual bondage, sado-masochism and similar practices should be exonerated from the threat of prosecution.
Patrick Harvie, the Green MSP, told a Holyrood committee the present law was an “anomaly”.

But he dropped a bid to change the law after Kenny MacAskill, the justice minister, and other MSPs said lifting the threat of prosecution could provide a loophole for those charged with domestic abuse and sex crimes….”

::sigh::

]]> By: Crys http://islandofpain.com/2009/05/03/bdsm-news-digest-april-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-3458 Crys Mon, 04 May 2009 06:50:09 +0000 http://islandofpain.com/?p=754#comment-3458 Cloud, it's hard to believe you missed this: Amazon.com in April of 2009 censored their catalog, making books on erotica, BDSM, gay and lesbian, and other "adult" material very very difficult or impossible to find in their catalog. See Diana Hunter's blog http://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html#6368025310579860865 and Amazon itself http://blog.seattlepi.com/amazon/archives/166329.asp "it impacted 57,310 books in a number of broad categories such as Health, Mind & Body, Reproductive & Sexual Medicine, and Erotica. This problem impacted books not just in the United States but globally. It affected not just sales rank but also had the effect of removing the books from Amazon's main product search." Amazon began correcting the "accident" or experiment or whatever they were doing only due to widespread public outrage and a firestorm on Twitter. Cloud, it’s hard to believe you missed this: Amazon.com in April of 2009 censored their catalog, making books on erotica, BDSM, gay and lesbian, and other “adult” material very very difficult or impossible to find in their catalog. See Diana Hunter’s blog http://dianahunter.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html#6368025310579860865
and Amazon itself http://blog.seattlepi.com/amazon/archives/166329.asp
“it impacted 57,310 books in a number of broad categories such as Health, Mind & Body, Reproductive & Sexual Medicine, and Erotica. This problem impacted books not just in the United States but globally. It affected not just sales rank but also had the effect of removing the books from Amazon’s main product search.”

Amazon began correcting the “accident” or experiment or whatever they were doing only due to widespread public outrage and a firestorm on Twitter.

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