On Saturday the UK’s Mail on Sunday ran a sensational article focusing on the “disturbingly graphic content” available in abundance through major online bookstores, including WH Smith, Amazon, Waterstones and Barnes & Noble, generally as ebooks. The prime focus of their piece was WH Smith, where children’s ebooks and pornography were freely mixed under the first page of results for a search for “daddy.” (The story appears to have begun with a tweet during the week and an article in The Kernel that focused on Amazon.) In response, WH Smith took their entire website offline, and it remains still closed […]
