I found a baby outfit (sizes newborn to five years) Amazon phrase bearer “Santa's Favorite Slut.”
This is not just a tasteless mistake – it is a failure of corporate responsibility and consumer protection. A large corporation like this should have systems in place to prevent sexual assault.Seditious or exploitative language is associated with children's items.
KG London
“A handy addition to your child's wardrobe,” says the advert on the UK and US websites.
Amazon won't tell me how many parents jumped at the opportunity to identify their child with a sexualized slur, but it immediately removed the listing on both sides of the Atlantic for “violating our content policies.”
Have they really developed algorithms to filter out offensive products? That's how it is, he says. “If we determine that a product was not detected by our controls, we will immediately remove it and improve our controls,” the spokesperson said.
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