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Wednesday, October 09, 2024

Kick me while I'm down

 


I got this message from eBay this morning:

We had to remove your listing because it didn’t follow our Offensive material policy. Listings that promote or glorify hatred, violence, or discrimination aren’t allowed.

What activity didn't follow the policy

At eBay, we have a strict policy against items that promote or glorify hatred or violence to ensure our platform remains a safe, trusted and inclusive environment for our global community of sellers and buyers. Consequently merchandise that may indicate support of Vladimir Putin is prohibited on eBay.


I had found these nesting dolls at Goodwill a few weeks ago and listed them on eBay. I didn't think anything of it. They are former Soviet leaders and the smallest one is Putin. So apparently trying to sell it indicates support of Vladimir Putin and is prohibited.

I'm not doing so well with my online ventures. First teepublic.com deletes my account for some unknown reason and now eBay accuses me of being a Putin supporter because I tried selling Soviet leader nesting dolls. I must say that it seems farfetched that these nesting dolls promote or glorify hatred or violence. I'm willing to bet they aren't removing any Trump items on eBay and if anyone glorifies hatred or violence it would be Trump.

But what can I do? It's me against a faceless corporation.

I'm still reeling from the teepublic debacle. Part of every day for me was cranking out some new designs and posting them on my teepublic.com store. I'm at a loss. I suppose I could still crank them out and post them here, but what good would that do? The two or three people who read my blog would see them, but I would right where I was when I started posting on teepublic.com in the first place. I wanted people to see my work.

And now it is essentially gone.

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