I used to use window chalk on my truck to air my grievances for a few years, every week I'd update my windows. That led me to start up a sticker business online. I've only used my website and social media, no google or amazon. I decided last week to open an Etsy store and within 24hrs got my first take downs.
I'm sick and tired of being a second class citizen, I'm sick of this censorship and how companies can decide what is considered harmful content. I'm sick of the shadowbanning and deplatforming. I've been kicked off everything multiple times and have never retreated from the battlefield. I'm sick of big tech making the rules, and applying them unequally against our Constitution. I will not give up and I will never back down, because We Will Prevail NCSWIC.
The stickers are really simple and just had WWG1WGA on one and NCSWIC on the other.
Here's the ETSY response:
Hello,
This is a message from Etsy regarding your shop --- We're getting in touch to let you know that we've removed one or more of your listings in accordance with our Prohibited Items Policy: https://www.etsy.com/legal/prohibited
We’ve refunded you the fees for the listings we removed. You can see your deactivated listings here: https://www.etsy.com/your/listings/inactive
Certain types of content are not allowed and/or appropriate for the Etsy marketplace. This includes (but is not limited to) content that promotes or endorses harmful misinformation: https://www.etsy.com/legal/policy/harmful-misinformation/938683190953
In accordance with these policies, Etsy is removing, among other things, items related to “QAnon” from our marketplace.
Even if it isn't a seller's intention to encourage or condone harmful misinformation, Etsy reserves the right to remove items that we determine aren't in the spirit of our marketplace or otherwise violate our policies.
Please be aware that continuing to list this type of content may lead to the suspension of your account. We don’t want that to happen, so we ask that you please review the rest of your items and ensure that they comply with our Prohibited Items Policy: https://www.etsy.com/legal/prohibited
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As a side rant: I have been an etsy seller since around 2014. I did craft supplies for a bit but then I moved to making handmade things. Etsy is an absolutely shithole right now. They recently raised their rates so they could "combat reselling and work on shutting down non-handmade stores". I have since reported around 30 stores that are verifiably chinese reselling or just flat out not selling handmade items and NOTHING has happened.
But there is also nowhere else on the internet that is an ecommerce site that caters to just handmade items anymore. I'm sure there is something out there but nothing that is a household name like ebay, etsy, amazon. I know it starts with an idea but currently in our society you won't be making a new website like that and having any modicum of success without rubbing elbows with the cabal.
All true! This is a strangling thats silent. Quietly removing dissent.
And a Parallel Economy sounds good but the wheels are so slow!!