Still your go-to spot for Nazi memorabilia, assault rifle parts and high capacity magazine modifications, so we can all relax. They’ve obviously given a lot of thought to their priorities.
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Skeletons in the board member’s closet? If the company has an outward appearance of prudish maybe people won’t go snooping? Just a thought.
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This seemed to be pretty close to the first volley in the current round:
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Ebay needs to ban Pokemon cards so these dudes will stop buying up every deck in town. I did get to see several flippers walk into Target yesterday looking completely dejected when they saw the signs that Target no longer sells them, so there’s that.
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Did this one also start as a App Store terms of service issue like Tumblr?
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Ebay has always had an adult section, everything from hardcore videos to toys to joke gifts and vintage (tame) erotica. You had to confirm you were of legal age to enter. But on the internet nobody knows you’re a dog, so maybe its a liability issue for them.
Odd the complaints about ebay here. I used it for years, found it no more of a pain than other online platforms. Still the best place to find or sell rando stuff like odd AC adapters, small used parts, outsider art, half finished projects, etc. Its a giant flea market. You can get deals. A rare book might be $100 on amazon but half that on ebay because nobody’s looking there. In terms of running a business I’ve found amazon a lot more difficult and costly to deal with, but it depends on the product.
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Appears that implementing a ‘safe search’ and enforcing ‘do the right thing’ policies on people listing items is beyond a company that stopped innovating about twenty years ago[1].
[1] With the exception of finding new ways to screw money out of users.
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Wait, Ebay is British?
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Rats. And I was the highest bidder on three giganto vaginal orgasms.
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Not terribly surprised. Their search engine, Cortana, has been known to be bug-riddled since inception, and the only ones who use it well are the sellers who use it to game search parameters. Look at just one NSFW item, even by accident, and Cortana will joyously present similar items in their “items you looked at” and “recent purchases” for the next several visits. I wouldn’t be surprised if people who kept on having dildos et. al. pop up on their searches at inopportune times started screeching at ebay about allowing pr0n, and ebay took the course of least resistance.
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Should this be seen in the context of “Hey, let’s renegotiate the Communications Decency Act”?
People are grumbling about the part that survived-- 47 USC Section 230, the safe harbour provision.
Is that you, Gwyneth?
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They ban sex, but I’m guessing that they’re going to keep fucking their sellers…
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The Religious Right has been marching against sex on the Internet for years: CraigsList, BackPage, etc. PornHub is their latest target.
Fighting child sex-trafficking is usually their hammer, because it’s hard to be against that. And they’ve got overreaching legislation on their side.
Perhaps Ebay got wind that Gilead was starting to look at them?
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Blimey, that’s a word I haven’t heard or seen used in an age! Great word, I’m gonna have to start using it again. Thanks for using it and reminding me about it! 
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Except He won’t be able to rise on eBay, since His book includes an awful lot of begetting and some light incest. Two cases come to mind right away, the first being immediately after the Great Flood when the human race consisted of Noah, his wife, his sons, and his daughters-in-law and the second being after Lot escaped the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah when his daughters got him drunk, raped him, and got with child by him.
Then there’s the violence in the Bible, most notably Someone getting tortured to death via crucifixion.
There are almost 54,000 listings right now in eBay’s Holy Bible category. What would happen if someone were to create a tool to automatically complain about the sexual and violent content of each of those listings?
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But that was his father’s doing. The worst he did was flip some tables in the temple and chase the money changers out.
Complain about Song of Solomon/Song of Songs. That part of the Bible definitely violates the new Ebay rules.
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