10 September 2015
Google Play Books Tries To Act Like a Champion of Banned Books, Then Bans Books (Updated)
My colleague Salgood Sam pointed out an interesting wrinkle to my banning by Google Play Books. They pretend they are champions of banned books. Click this to see.
I want to show you all something. This is the message I got about the first banning, of STORY OF OH! (there were no messages on any of the other bannings, certainly not LULU):
And I didn't notice before it mentions "pornographic text." Ah. So all those prose smut books are supposed to be banned too, BUT THEY'RE NOT because those make a lot of money for ebook merchants.
Also, even my overtly "adult" stuff has no "extreme sexual acts, including rape, incest, and bestiality," Certainly not LULU Book 1. There is not especially graphic nudity, and on a couple of pages(or rather, a little less), a consensual, fairly tame sex scene that might be an R if it were a film. And that's the most graphic the book will ever get. After Act 1 of Erdgeist(which Book 1 covers), there's not much of that kind of thing.
Unless all even somewhat graphically depicted sex acts are "extreme." One of them--STORY OF OH!--is written by Terry Gilliam collaborator Charles Alverson. And LULU is from the work of Frank Wedekind. These have no artistic value?My drawing has no artistic value?
The second round, when they banned LULU Book 1, which has NONE OF THESE THINGS, and MARTHA, which is autobio and basically a romance story with sex in it that's simply not presented coyly, I received no message at all. I found out when I went to my account and they were gone.
They treat anyone who's not a big name with no respect at all.
And "bestiality"--THEN WHY DO THEY CARRY, IN PROSE, WEREWOLF PORN?
Obviously there is no appeals process. They can arbitrarily ban anything they like.
Or keep it up if it's a big company and makes shitloads of money. Like all the CROSSED volumes from Avatar they carry. CROSSED is famous for being a foul, ugly series featuring graphic violence & rape every page, but they ban ME?
Vol 1 for instance, just to name two things, features two members of a family being gang-raped by zombies as their child is graphically torn apart. Also a woman being ground under a truck wheel as she screams "I'M COMIN'! OH GOD." She doesn't mean she's traveling to God.
If they ban me, certainly they would ban something as extreme as this? (I'm not. I have no violence or rape in my work)
Oh RIGHT it's Avatar. Obviously that makes the content acceptable to their policies. That, and it makes money hand over fisting.
This is only one of a number of comics more explicit than mine that Google Play carries. Here's another: They carry Joe Casey's SEX. Which is definitely more explicit. I seem to recall a scene with an old man doing a hooker from behind and then shooting her in the back of his head when he comes. Lovely stuff.
They happily carry bdsm works like FIFTY SHADES OF GREY. I bought my ebook of the real STORY OF O from them. Those aren't "pornographic text?" Those don't depict "extreme sex acts?" Or "bestiality"? At one point in the real O, a woman is raped by a dog. REALLY NOW. Alverson's and my parody of O doesn't even go that far.
HOW EXACTLY DOES THAT STUFF STAY UP AND I'M SOMEHOW UNACCEPTABLE?
I call total reeking bullshit.
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My colleague Salgood Sam pointed out an interesting wrinkle to my banning by Google Play Books. They pretend they are champions of banned books. Click this to see.
I want to show you all something. This is the message I got about the first banning, of STORY OF OH! (there were no messages on any of the other bannings, certainly not LULU):
Notice of Book Removal from Google Play [1-8003000008684]
Hello,
We have discovered that one or more books in your Google Play catalog do not comply with our content policies. The following books will no longer be available to users on Google Books or Google Play:Oh, I am NOT being understanding.
The Story of OH!
Reason for removal: We do not allow images of nudity with no educational or artistic value, pornographic text or depictions of extreme sexual acts, including rape, incest, and bestiality, nor do we permit pseudo depictions of these acts.
Please review your book catalog and remove any other books that do not comply with our content policies. Failure to comply with these policies may result in suspension or removal from the program.
We appreciate your understanding.
Sincerely,
The Google Play Books Policy Enforcement Team
And I didn't notice before it mentions "pornographic text." Ah. So all those prose smut books are supposed to be banned too, BUT THEY'RE NOT because those make a lot of money for ebook merchants.
Also, even my overtly "adult" stuff has no "extreme sexual acts, including rape, incest, and bestiality," Certainly not LULU Book 1. There is not especially graphic nudity, and on a couple of pages(or rather, a little less), a consensual, fairly tame sex scene that might be an R if it were a film. And that's the most graphic the book will ever get. After Act 1 of Erdgeist(which Book 1 covers), there's not much of that kind of thing.
Unless all even somewhat graphically depicted sex acts are "extreme." One of them--STORY OF OH!--is written by Terry Gilliam collaborator Charles Alverson. And LULU is from the work of Frank Wedekind. These have no artistic value?My drawing has no artistic value?
The second round, when they banned LULU Book 1, which has NONE OF THESE THINGS, and MARTHA, which is autobio and basically a romance story with sex in it that's simply not presented coyly, I received no message at all. I found out when I went to my account and they were gone.
They treat anyone who's not a big name with no respect at all.
And "bestiality"--THEN WHY DO THEY CARRY, IN PROSE, WEREWOLF PORN?
Obviously there is no appeals process. They can arbitrarily ban anything they like.
Or keep it up if it's a big company and makes shitloads of money. Like all the CROSSED volumes from Avatar they carry. CROSSED is famous for being a foul, ugly series featuring graphic violence & rape every page, but they ban ME?
Vol 1 for instance, just to name two things, features two members of a family being gang-raped by zombies as their child is graphically torn apart. Also a woman being ground under a truck wheel as she screams "I'M COMIN'! OH GOD." She doesn't mean she's traveling to God.
If they ban me, certainly they would ban something as extreme as this? (I'm not. I have no violence or rape in my work)
Oh RIGHT it's Avatar. Obviously that makes the content acceptable to their policies. That, and it makes money hand over fisting.
This is only one of a number of comics more explicit than mine that Google Play carries. Here's another: They carry Joe Casey's SEX. Which is definitely more explicit. I seem to recall a scene with an old man doing a hooker from behind and then shooting her in the back of his head when he comes. Lovely stuff.
They happily carry bdsm works like FIFTY SHADES OF GREY. I bought my ebook of the real STORY OF O from them. Those aren't "pornographic text?" Those don't depict "extreme sex acts?" Or "bestiality"? At one point in the real O, a woman is raped by a dog. REALLY NOW. Alverson's and my parody of O doesn't even go that far.
HOW EXACTLY DOES THAT STUFF STAY UP AND I'M SOMEHOW UNACCEPTABLE?
I call total reeking bullshit.
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