A few weeks ago, the racist thug who shot Travyon
Martin, George Zimmerman, sold his "painting," a poor excuse for an
artwork, for over $100K on an e-Bay auction. But, recently, mega giant
eBay censored an auction by the young artist Michael d'Antuono in his attempt
to raise money for the Trayvon Martin Foundation designed to help young black
people.
The work, showing a gun pointed at a black
boy, was called "hateful and discriminatory" by e-Bay -- the reason
given for stopping the auction. But it is e-bay itself who is hateful and
discriminatory because they allow the most hateful, despicable, degrading
content in their auctions and discriminate against women by showing them as
mere objects to be raped, beat up in sado-maschoistic scenes, put in chains and,
incredibly, as helpless creatures to be incested!
e-bay has stopped an auction where a creative artist was expressing himself in his art to raise money for a Foundation that is designed to help poor, black people. “Discriminatory” means unfair treatment. What e-bay itself is doing is unwarranted and unfair. eBay has never given a reason why d'Antuono is in violation of its arbitrary, vague, and unreasonable standards.
The
whole situation becomes Orwellian because Big Brother e-Bay itself allows
auctions of materials who anyone, with a sense of decency and the most basic
morality, would find utterly disgusting and unspeakably appalling.
eBay, is listing products containing the
words “bestiality,” “rape,” “incest,” and “pedophile.” If eBay demands compliance
with their arbitrary rule, then why does eBay have products listed with these
words? Here are some stats:
1. Bestiality: As of this writing, eBay has 72
products listed with the word “bestiality.” Of these 72, 9 are books (13% of
bestiality-related products), with 8 claiming to be non-fiction, with 1 being
listed as fiction & literature. Focusing only on the books, can eBay
certify that products sold on its site do not contain references to banned
content?
2. Incest: eBay lists 437 products with this word.
Of these, 363 (83%) are books, with 34 (8%) being fictional works. Of the 363,
can eBay certify which ones don’t contain references to the banned word/act/practice?
How, if eBay is policing its own backyard, can these products be sold?
3. Rape: eBay lists 2,364 products with this word,
of which 1,163 (49%) are books. 817 are listed as non-fiction, and 128 (5%) are
fiction & literature. How is this possible, since PayPal must be policing
its parent company’s listings. With strong content filters and no possibility
of grey areas, then the non-fiction titles cannot possibly contain references
to the banned word/act/practice, right? Similarly, the fictional titles could
not possibly exist on eBay, right?
4. Pedophile: eBay lists 67 products with this
word, of which 13 (19%) are books, and 6 (9%) are listed as fiction &
literature. How is this possible? How many of the 13 contain banned content, as
defined by eBay?
5. BDSM: eBay lists 1,294 products with this word.
73 (6%) are books, of which 57 (4%) are fiction & literature. By the way,
eBay sells BDSM apparatus, which, I thought, would be banned as well.
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