ACSOL Action Alert: Please Join Effort to Remove Anti-Registrant Merchandise from Etsy.com
From ACSOL:
Please join ACSOL and others in an effort to persuade Etsy to remove anti-registrant merchandise from its website. The merchandise at issue includes messages on clothing and bumper stickers such as “Shoot Your Local Pedophile” and “Dead Pedophiles Don’t Reoffend.”
“These and other statements on merchandise incite violence and therefore are not protected by the First Amendment,” stated ACSOL Executive Director Janice Bellucci.
Messages demanding that Etsy remove its anti-registrant merchandise from its website should be sent by email to [email protected]
It is important to note that the anti-registrant merchandise sold by Etsy is in violation of at least two of Etsy’s policies. First, there is an Etsy policy that bans items that “promote, support, or glorify violence.” Second, there is an Etsy policy that prohibits content on its website that “demeans, targets, or encourages harm against groups, regardless of protected-class status.”
In its email message to Etsy, ACSOL demanded the immediate removal of anti-registrant merchandise from the Etsy website. In addition, ACSOL stated that it would pursue all available legal remedies if that merchandise was not removed.
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A followup I received from Etsy is that we’re expected to flag these one at a time.
There was a so called “pred catcher” who got stabbed up today by someone he was trying to sting.
While I agree that the statements promote violence and are not protected under free speech the second Etsy rule that is claimed to be violated made me laugh. “demeans, targets, or encourages harm against groups, regardless of protected-class status.” The fact that we could ever be considered a “Protected Class” in any way shape or form is ludicrous. We all know that we are the targets and not protected at all.
That being said has anyone else looked at the comments on our local Sheriffs office posts anytime a person is arrested for a sex offense or a registry paper felony? The statements on Etsy are tame in comparison to the graphic, violent, vigilante comments that the Sheriffs offices allow to be made on their public platform. They appear to be actually encouraging the vigilante to attack PFR’s and are getting away with it.
By “protected class” I think they are referring to the term of art as used in U.S. civil rights laws. For example, Race, Religion, National Origin, etc.
Another thing that happens, is those groups call ALL sex offenders pedophiles even if that is not their designation.