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Heureuse de voir Mécanique du privilège blanc mis en avant à la Fnac. Voici un livre découvert grâce à Sohan Tricoire sur Insta qui m'a permis de comprendre certaines histoires de ma mère sur les luttes féministes des années 70 / 80 et m'a fait changer certains de mes comportements.
Table des livres mis en avant au rayon "Sociologie" de la Fnac. Mécanique du privilège blanc est au centre.
December 14, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Cette censure s'applique aussi par effet de bord à des produits qui n'ont rien à voir. Ex :
- des livres évoquant le cancer du sein (érotisme)
- Nietzsche parce qu'en anglais "gay science" (LGBTQ+)
- une édition "rainbow" des Mentos (LGBTQ+)
- des livres sur la base de données Oracle (surnaturel)
"Examples of LGBTIQ content from our random sample of restricted products include a movie featuring gay characters—and containing the word “gay” in its title—and a book on the history of the persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany. Other types of LGBTIQ content from outside of this sample that we observed include workbooks relating to sexual orientation and gender identity, trans and genderqueer erotica, books on LGBTIQ criminalization in the US and queer activism, and cookbooks based on queer community-led culinary practices. However, many products containing the word “rainbow” in their descriptions were censored despite not being otherwise related to LGBTIQ themes. Such products included rainbow-colored hair extensions, a travel case, a video game, a movie DVD, a detective novel called Mister Rainbow, and Mentos rainbow candy. These findings reveal that Amazon’s LGBTIQ censorship is overly broad, capturing products such as candy that are not illegal in any country. As we noted previously, many books were also collaterally censored for containing the word “gay” in their title or description. As a chief example, Nietzsche’s Gay Science was censored, despite being a philosophical work unrelated to LGBTIQ topics." "In our random sample, we found books related to the occult and the paranormal including those on tarot, fairy tales, demons, jinn, witchcraft, astrology, crystals, freemasonry, astral projection, and Bigfoot. Much of the children’s books’ censorship seemed motivated by censoring the occult, although it is unclear whether these children’s books were expressly targeted or collateral damage of some larger censorship strategy. For example, in our random sample are children’s books related to jinn, witches, wizards, and necromancy. Our random sample also featured one book describing how to write fictional books relating to monsters as well as a book about Harry Potter. Although not represented in our smaller random sample, in our larger data set we observed books relating to Thelema, an occultist movement, as well as its founder, Aleister Crowley. Many books related to extraterrestrial aliens and ufology at large were also restricted. We also observed a Dell Alienware laptop that was restricted, although we are unsure if this is due to the product’s allusion to aliens or due to electronics or communications regulations. Notably, while we observed multiple restricted products relating to oracles and divination both inside and outside of our random sample, we also found a large number of books outside of our sample related to the Oracle database software that seem to have also been caught up by the filter, suggesting that books related to oracles are over-censored." "Another example is Sex Addiction Survival Guide: A Practical Workbook for Reconnecting to Yourself and Others, which is a guideline targeting individuals who are struggling with sex and pornography addiction issues, motivating them to move toward a healthier connection to self and others. Censored, it was most likely flagged as an “erotic” book based on certain words in the title and description, such as (sex, porn, sexual, hypersexuality, etc.). Finally, Klarissa Dreams Redux: An Illuminated Anthology is a collection of poetry and other writings in the context of Klarissa Kocsis’s paintings. In the description of the book, however, the author is described as a “breast cancer survivor” and as having “earned a reputation for portraiture and nudes”, either of which may be triggering Amazon censorship. Literature relating to breast cancer is common collateral damage for overblocking censorship filters on various platforms."
December 2, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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Les cas 2 et 3 s'appliquent sur les stores locaux. Dans le cas 2, les résultats de la recherche seront filtrés : il n'y a aucun résultat. Dans le cas 3, les résultats retournés correspondent à la requête moins les mots-clés censurés (ex. : "études de genre" retourne des résultats pour "études").
"We first sought to understand if there was censorship of search queries on the UAE and Saudi Arabia regional sites. Performing search queries on the regional UAE site, we found no results for the following LGBTIQ search terms: “gay”, “lesbian”, ”transgender”, “LGBT”, “queer”, or “bisexual” (see Figure 19). Search terms related to other topics such as sexuality, the occult, or Christianity return results and are seemingly not subject to search query censorship. Thus, this censorship appears to target LGBTIQ in the UAE exclusively. Unlike with the UAE, we did not find that the Saudi Arabia dedicated storefront performed the same type of censorship where all results for certain search queries would be censored. However, in Saudi Arabia search results for LGBTIQ topics were not relevant to our queries or, if relevant, the results did not contain the queried LGBTIQ search term. This finding may be explained by the censorship of product listings themselves on the Saudi Arabia storefront versus the additional censorship through search queries."
December 2, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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Au niveau méthodologie, l'étude porte principalement sur le store américain et la possibilité d'expédier certains produits vers certains pays. Les stores locaux sont regardés dans une moindre mesure. Les auteurices cherchent notamment à évaluer les restrictions pour le Moyen-Orient.
"One way to try to measure Amazon censorship in Middle Eastern countries would be to visit those Amazon storefronts which are available in the Middle East, namely, the UAE’s amazon.ae or Saudi Arabia’s amazon.sa, and to try to determine which products are anomalously “missing” from being sold on these two Amazon sites. This approach, however, would be limited. For example, if we saw one book related to LGBTIQ topics that was sold on amazon.com but not amazon.ae, that might be due to the book being censored on amazon.ae, but another possibility is that the book was out of stock or not sufficiently popular to be sold in some countries. However, if we saw a disproportionately large number of books related to LGBTIQ topics that were available on amazon.com but not sold on amazon.ae, then we would have a stronger argument, but this argument would be at best a statistical argument, and for any individual product we would not be able to prove whether it was the victim of censorship or was unavailable on that storefront for some other reason. Given the weakness of the previously described approach, we instead measured whether products on amazon.com, the American storefront, could be shipped to various countries. As an additional benefit, this approach allowed us to study censorship in regions that did not have their own dedicated storefront. For our investigation of censorship in the Middle East, we picked four Middle Eastern countries: the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Yemen. We also tested a fifth country, Canada, as a control, which we explain later in our methodology."
December 2, 2024 at 9:20 PM