It Florida gop is not the only one that attacks the detention center known as “alligator alcatraz” sales goods. Some Etsy buyers and vendors started boycotting the online market this month for their decision to allow “Alligator Alcatraz” labels on their site.
Nowadays, such goods, including t-shirts, hats, mugs, stickers, patches and other objects, are discouraged by electronic trade platforms outside Etsy, such as large dealers such as Ebay, such as Shopify and More.
However, Etsy users have taken a special question of the company’s decision to allow the goods celebrating the controversial ice of Florida, where the detainees are kept in cages and are subjected to terrible conditions, such as outlets Ap– Newsweek– Washington Post– CBS– NOW– Tampa Bay TimesAnd others.
Etsy, its users claim, have been published Discrimination and hostile content policythat lists the “immigration mode” protected into the category – meaning both behavior and goods cannot be contained or discriminatory behavior in the listed categories. Boyhoters believe that Etsy violates its policies because the company states that forbidden behavior contains not only hate speech, but also “content that directly or indirectly contains violent or degrading comments on the protected classes listed above.”
Etsy Boycott is loosely arranged on social media platforms like meta Thread and Reddit So far, there are thousands of messages and comments. For example, one thread that references to the boycott got over 26,500 likes and a Reddit Post exclaimed “What do they think in Etsh?!” It has 69,000 votes.
When you are looking for the term “Boycotted Etsy“In the threads you will find a long stream that discusses a boycott, many of which have hundreds of answers. Some Etsy salesmen are concerned with their online business as a result, even though they do not sell this type
Reddit’s Etsy community and elsewhere, boycott sellers are threaten to close the shopsand buyers say they are closure their accounts. There are also references to boycott on other social media sites such as X– Tiktok– FacebookAnd others.
As the pursuit is so far only loosely organized, it is difficult to say how many people participate. According to the App Intelligence App patterns, the Etella’s iOS application in the United States has not been dissolved at the moment -it has been in the top 20 in the shopping class for the whole month.
Etsy is not alone benefiting from this type of goods, as well as some sellers and buyers have pointed out. Many large sales platforms have not currently banned “Alligator Alcatraz” entries. Amazon among the Techcrunch, only Amazon was willing to defend his choice to host this item, showing us it controversial products and content. The company also said instructions.
Etsy did not respond to several comment requests. Ebay responded to an email request but never shared a comment. Shopify did not answer, nor smaller platforms such as Redbubble and TeePublic. (Walmart and Target were not found to host this type of goods at this time.)
Etsy also introduced a couple of sellers with “Alligator Auschwitz” brands, including lists of the goods on its closure (as seen in the screenshot below).
E-commerce platforms have previously applied for storms like this and have been known to host products that promote both right and left-wing views without taking the political attitude itself.
But in extreme cases, companies are a setback for captain customers. For example, earlier this year, Shopify was caught by a store -led store -led store that sold the swastika shirt and took it down, even though it continued to host other shops, which included anti -Semitic content. In previous years. Amazon also encountered earlier setbacks Its decision to host the right-wing Miliis products and products that celebrate Qanon Superies, and also pulled those production down.
