Nazify
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Shopify still wants that sweet, sweet Nazi cash. Shopify says they only closed Kanye West's store because they thought he might not actually ship the Nazi t-shirts, not because they were Nazi t-shirts. Truly a principled stand. In the message, which was posted on Shopify's Slack Tuesday morning, general counsel Jess Hertz said the swastika-emblazoned T-shirt listed for sale by West was "a ...
    • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Overton window has shifted so far right that it flew straight out of the building into the pasture next door.

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      11 days ago

      I can see that they don’t want to advertise that they started police the products sold through their platform, as that may cause other partners to switch providers

    • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      To make it clear that their only loyalty is to money. They would sell “murder your mom knives” if it helped their stock price and murderers were buying them.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    11 days ago

    So if I started a shopify store, sold Nazi t-shirts and guaranteed that every order would be fulfilled … that would be OK?

      • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 days ago

        100% positive the modern FBI has a file on absolutely everyone. Technology makes this easy now. Everyone is on various lists. It’s the combination that gets you.

  • Zier@fedia.io
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    11 days ago

    Shopify changes name to Nazify. Their lames excuses get a boycott from me.

  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
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    11 days ago

    in other words, it’s about money. shopify would be on the hook as the payment processor.

  • TsarVul@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    In the internal announcement, Hertz gave more detail than the company has shared publicly. She said West’s Nazi T-shirt was “vile, disgusting, and inexcusable” and that “everyone agrees with that.” But that didn’t affect Shopify’s decision to delete West’s online store, Hertz added. “Opinion doesn’t factor in here,” she said. “What matters is our terms of service.”

    Wouldn’t want to alienate any potential clientele, right? Fuckin’ animals.

    • karashta@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 days ago

      “This is terrible,” man said as he continues to feed babies into the baby crushing machine

  • _cryptagion @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    10 days ago

    That was something they probably should have kept to themselves lmao

    How can the people in charge of corporations be so fucking stupid