"I found a baby outfit (sizes from newborn to five years) on Amazon bearing the phrase Santa's favourite ho. This isn't just a tasteless mistake it's a failure of corporate responsibility and consumer protection. A corporation this large should have systems that prevent sexualised or exploitative language being associated with items for children."
"Amazon won't tell me how many parents have leapt at the chance to identify their infant with the sexualised slur, but it did immediately remove the listing on both sides of the Atlantic for violating our content guidelines. Surely it has devised algorithms to filter out offensive products? And so it has, it claims. If we discover a product was undetected by our controls, we remove the product immediately and refine our controls, a spokesperson said."
A baby outfit (sizes from newborn to five years) on Amazon bore the phrase 'Santa's favourite ho'. The phrase appears on listings marketed as 'A comfortable addition to your child's wardrobe' on UK and US websites. The product's presence on a marketplace for children raises concerns about corporate responsibility and consumer protection because sexualised or exploitative language should not be associated with items for children. Amazon removed the listing for violating content guidelines and declined to disclose how many such items sold. A spokesperson said that if a product is undetected by controls they remove it immediately and refine their detection systems.
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