Big Brother in Mountain View

I read an article at techdirt about Amazon.com getting in trouble over a magazine it had available related to cockfighting. Amazon.com says it's not liable because it's actually sold through a third party, and it's in their agreement that it is the responsibility of the actual seller to offer legitimate goods (or something like that). Anyway, in the comments were several other definitions of cockfighting that I don't need to mention, along with other complaints about Amazon.com and how they sell kiddie porn in Japan.

Someone provided a link to an example of this (which, of course, was in Japanese) and I, being curious about this claim and also in complete confidence that I would not see what this comment had implied, I followed the link to a book at amazon.co.jp.

Obviously, the person wasn't fluent in Japanese, and, to be a bit cliche, "judged a book by its cover." He didn't bother reading into it to see what it was all about. I think his comment about this 'book of kiddie porn' had something to do with "forcing her to take her clothes off."

Thanks to Google, I can read Japanese (BETA). Nothing on that translated page had anything to do with sex or violence. The front cover was admittedly a bit suggestive, but from what I gathered it was a book of pictures of a 12-year-old during summer. If you want to read the translated page (I swear it's not even legitimate pornography), click here.

Boy, that was long. All I really wanted to say is that since I've been to Google and translated one page to Japanese, it's throwing Japanese sources into my news column in the Google sidebar. Isn't that just creepy?