ETSY faces the user’s boycott on Alcatraz products with brands

the Florida Republican Party It is not the only one who benefits from the detention center known as “Alcatraz” by sale goods. A sub -group of ETSY buyers and sellers started to boycott the market online this month because of its decision to allow the goods “Alcatraz” goods on its website.

Today, this type of cargo can be found-including shirts, hats, cups, stickers, spots and other elements-through e-commerce platforms outside ETSY, which range from major retailers like Amazon to online markets such as EBY to seller stores like Shopify and more.

However, ETSY users have faced a special problem with the company’s decision to allow goods, which celebrate the controversial ICE detention center in Florida, where detainees are held in cages and are subject to horrific conditions, according to outlets such as APand Newsweekand Washington Postand CBSand Nytand Tamba Bay TimesAnd others.

ETSY users, with ETSY, argue a post Discrimination and policy of hateful contentWhich lists the “state of migration” as a protected category – which means that both behavior and goods cannot contain discriminatory behavior or its display towards the listed protected categories. The provinces believe that ETSY violates its policy, and the company notes that the prohibited behavior includes not only hate speech, but “the content that contains directly or indirectly on a violent or insulting comment against the protected seasons mentioned above.”

ETSY province has been organized loosely on social media platforms such as Meta’s Subjects and I responded To date, there are thousands of publications and comments. For example, One correlation indicator This indicates that the province received more than 26,500 likes Reddit Post shouting, “What do they think about etsy?!” He has 69000 UPVotes.

When searching for the termEtsy Province“On the topics, you will find a long stream of publications discussing the boycott, which has many hundreds of responses. Some of the ETSY sellers worry that their online actions will suffer as a result, although they do not sell this type of goods. Others, including those who disagree with Trump administration policies, believe that protected speech is protected.

On the Reddit Etsy community and anywhere else, province Sellers We are A threat to close their storesBuyers say they are closing Their accounts. There are also references to boycotting on other social media, such as xand Tikhakand FacebookAnd others.

Since the voltage is so far organized, it is difficult to know the number of participants. According to the App Intelligence Appligures provid data, the ETSY IOS app has not slipped in the United States at the ranks at this time – it was at the best 20 shopping in the category of shopping throughout the month.

ETSY is not alone to take advantage of this type of goods, as some sellers and buyers also indicated. Many main sales platforms have not banned Alcatraz products at this time. Among these Techcrunch, Amazon was only ready to defend their choice to host these goods, which indicates to us this Politics on controversial products and content. The company also said that the goods “Alkatraz” were compatible with it Guidelines.

ETSY did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Ebay answered the email request, but no comment shared. Shopify did not respond, and no smaller platforms like Redbubble and Teepublic. (Walmart and Target were not found to host this type of goods at this time.)

ETSY also has also offered some sellers with a brand -brand “Auschwitz” crocodile, among other lists of the goods required to cancel them (as shown in the screen shot below).

E -commerce platforms have succeeded in storms like this before, and it was known that they were hosting products that enhance the right -wing views and left -wing left without taking a political position themselves.

But in the most extreme cases, companies surrendered to the customer’s reaction. For example, Earlier this yearShopify was arrested and hosted the Kanye -run store interface that was selling and took T -shirt, although it continued to host other stores that included anti -Semitism content. In previous years. Amazon also faced a violent reaction On its decision to host the right goods, products and products that celebrate law plots, as well as Pulled Those products under.