I’m not certain what prompted the move, but as a big business, it’s always risky to be seen as legitimizing a business that a large number of people want to have seen as illegitimate, even if its legal.
I keep waiting for Reddit to end up in advertiser’s cross-hairs for allowing NSFW content to be hosted on its platform.
Word of the day!
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Don’t wish for things you don’t want. Look what happened to tumblr, as Hanglyman wisely points out above.
(Oh, and tumblr’s still fulla worthless pr0n bots. I blocked 100+ of 'em just the other day.)
I still occasionally shop Ebay as an Amazon alternative, and it’s worked pretty well for me. (I try to stick to established sellers with high positive ratings.) It’s great for picking up older merch, like a “new” case for my outdated phone, at a decent price.
But I don’t know what to think about the new policy. Will they censor, say, a horror DVD if it’s unrated? I’m not sure if I want to shop there any more.
Porn will out.
They can’t keep the pussy cat in the sack for ever.
They can chase it to China, where I’m looking to see them deride the cloistertron.
Really? Mine are hanging a lot lower than they used to 
Jesus supports sex workers. He ranked pimps and adulterers far lower, which is why the modern GQP doesn’t really like him any more.
Grand
Qanon
Pharisees
Let’s campaign for these corporations to become the arbiters of what people are allowed to say and do online. Nothing could go wrong with that, right?
SexBay.com goes online in 3…2…1…
Meanwhile, anything that graphically shows or revels in the most extreme violence is perfectly acceptable to eBay, no doubt, just like in wider USanian society.
The US has always been utterly fucked up in this respect. Puritan moralising tradition coupled with the ongoing violence tradition of ‘how we forcibly tamed this land including all the natives’.
The world would be a much better place if the pearl-clutchers clutched them using Kegels.
I’d guess your old account is still there, ready to be reactivated. I left eBay about 8 years ago (for a similar anti-sexual policy shift with ayPal-eBay) and deactivated my account, but also now have a bunch of stuff to sell thanks to a round of decluttering.
My “deleted” account was still there, waiting. Odd/weird.
I sold commercially on ebay for about four years and eventually quit due to capricious and inconsistent enforcement of their policies. We sold fully legal products (flavorings and fragrances) which are used in the cannabis industry - but also in food, candles, aromatherapy, skin products, etc. We pulled in over a hundred thousand dollars in the first couple of years, but it was a constant battle with them keeping these things listed. Something would get flagged. we’d appeal and win and a month later a near identical product would get flagged and we’d have to go through the whole process again. Eventually we decided our efforts were better served on another sales channel and closed the ebay store. Their loss, literally.
I misread it as Appledated and it still feels right in this context.
So true! A while back a parent of a young kid was telling me how she loved the Sopranos but always turned it off if her (5 yo) son walked in. I thought, “naturally, you don’t want him seeing people get beaten or shot.” But no, she continued, “you just never know when a naked woman is going to walk into screen…”
The problem is that these ideas are exported, due the global nature of internet, to other countries.
Puritan ideas aren’t an exclusive of Republican or conservative people in the USA.
Besides if somebody has to sell, say, his collection of VHS of Ilona Staller or Moana Pozzi, or even some B-movies with Gloria Guida or Edwige Fenech, what have to do now?
so - you won’t be finding this on eBay any more
the fools
