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liberaldemocrat7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 05:23 PM
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Zazzle does the ultimate outrage. You can't mention company names in your bumper stickers.
Edited on Mon Mar-12-07 05:24 PM by liberaldemocrat7
This appears kafkaesque and totalitarian. The "content" management person said I cannot mention a company name that I wanted to boycott such as GE or Exxon/Mobil even in a bumper sticker because THEY own the name of the company.

So I cannot use a company name that I want to boycott. The purpose of using bumper stickers and mugs etc. in part appears to get the message out in a political manner.

This reeks of the old soviet Russia.
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azurnoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 05:28 PM
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1. The last really bad virus my computer caught
came from a Zazzle site that I was hijacked to from About.com, I do not go there any more.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 05:29 PM
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2. How about visual euphemisms?
The actual name not said, nor the actual graphical logo, but something that represents them wordlessly?
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MrModerate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 05:36 PM
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3. Having just googled zazzle and comprehensively analyzed their site . . .
For about 15 seconds, I can conclude that they're a penny-ante outfit without the legal resources to fend off corporate bullies who could swat them like a fly.

It's not like Soviet Russia, it's like 21st Century America.

More's the pity.
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ourvoicescount Donating Member (251 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-12-07 09:25 PM
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4. Make the sticker a 2 parter? One that reads boycott, the other the outfit?
Or, a "Boycott _________" and allow others to write in their own???

Don't know a thing about Zazzle... But, I think they are feeding you a line of bull!

Here is a quick search on CafePress for "boycott stickers".

http://www.cafepress.com/buy/boycott/?click=true&recexp=a&CMP=KNC-G-GJ-PC2&ovchn=GGL&ovcpn=Politics+and+Causes+2+Basic&ovcrn=sr2PO1go13180go757pi3ai342+boycott+stickers&ovtac=PPC&SR=sr2PO1go13180go757pi3ai342
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