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Maybe you are not familiar with eBay's existing policies, but this seems to fall well in line with their prior behavior. From their official policy [1]: >List

by slg 6y ago

Maybe you are not familiar with eBay's existing policies, but this seems to fall well in line with their prior behavior. From their official policy [1]: >Listings that promote, perpetuate or glorify hatred, violence, or discrimination, including on the grounds of race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender or sexual orientation, aren't allowed. This includes but is not limited to the following: ... >Items with racist, anti-Semitic, or otherwise demeaning portrayals, for example through caricatures or other exaggerated features, including figurines, cartoons, housewares, historical advertisements, and golliwogs I doubt the books would be banned under this policy alone, but the public uproar about them means they are going to be popular tokens among people who want them specifically because they are now deemed problematic and that group is going to include a lot of racists. [1] - http://ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-items/offensive-material-policy?id=4324 http://ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-items/of... EDIT: Anyone want to explain any downvotes that don't amount to "I don't like eBay's policy"? OP was basically saying that eBay was opening a can of worms and all I did was point to an official eBay policy saying the can was already open.

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vageli 6y ago
Why is Mein Kampf available then?
- slg 6y ago
  As others have pointed out in this thread and is seemingly confirmed with a simple search of listings, eBay appears to only allows annotated versions of Mein Kampf which are meant for scholarly work. There is a historic value to those that doesn't exist for a Dr. Seuss book. And as the article points out, books that have a lower degree of historical significance like The Turner Diaries are removed. Also let's not pretend that these moderation policies are foolproof. There are always going to be examples that slip through the cracks. If you want eBay to remove them for sake of consistency, you are free to report those items.
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  - interestica 6y ago
    The fact that the Dr. Seuss book had content that facilitated a ban is certainly enough for it to be of academic and historical value.
    - slg 6y ago
      That logic just leads to a circular loop in which nothing can ever be banned because meriting a ban immediately makes something worthy of not being banned.
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      - interestica 6y ago
        It's not circular logic so much as it is just the paradox of it.
  - tablespoon 6y ago
    > As others have pointed out in this thread and is seemingly confirmed with a simple search of listings, eBay appears to only allows annotated versions of Mein Kampf which are meant for scholarly work. I don't think so: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?&_nkw=%22Mein+Kampf%22 https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?&_nkw=%22Mein+Kampf%22 As of this writing, I see three listings, and one appears to have been by someone hired by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry to do an English translation: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Unexpurgated-Edition-of-Hitlers-Mein-Kampf-Publ-1939-Translated-by-James-Murphy/133682850480?hash=item1f201e6ab0:g:d-QAAOSwof5gQRdL https://www.ebay.com/itm/Unexpurgated-Edition-of-Hitlers-Mei... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf_in_English#Murphy_translation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf_in_English#Murphy_t... Also, all the copies for sale appear to be from just before or just after the start of WWII, which means they'd likely have annotations of little modern scholarly value.

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vageli 6y ago

Why is Mein Kampf available then?

slg 6y ago
As others have pointed out in this thread and is seemingly confirmed with a simple search of listings, eBay appears to only allows annotated versions of Mein Kampf which are meant for scholarly work. There is a historic value to those that doesn't exist for a Dr. Seuss book. And as the article points out, books that have a lower degree of historical significance like The Turner Diaries are removed. Also let's not pretend that these moderation policies are foolproof. There are always going to be examples that slip through the cracks. If you want eBay to remove them for sake of consistency, you are free to report those items.
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- interestica 6y ago
  The fact that the Dr. Seuss book had content that facilitated a ban is certainly enough for it to be of academic and historical value.
  - slg 6y ago
    That logic just leads to a circular loop in which nothing can ever be banned because meriting a ban immediately makes something worthy of not being banned.
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    - interestica 6y ago
      It's not circular logic so much as it is just the paradox of it.
- tablespoon 6y ago
  > As others have pointed out in this thread and is seemingly confirmed with a simple search of listings, eBay appears to only allows annotated versions of Mein Kampf which are meant for scholarly work. I don't think so: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?&_nkw=%22Mein+Kampf%22 https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?&_nkw=%22Mein+Kampf%22 As of this writing, I see three listings, and one appears to have been by someone hired by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry to do an English translation: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Unexpurgated-Edition-of-Hitlers-Mein-Kampf-Publ-1939-Translated-by-James-Murphy/133682850480?hash=item1f201e6ab0:g:d-QAAOSwof5gQRdL https://www.ebay.com/itm/Unexpurgated-Edition-of-Hitlers-Mei... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf_in_English#Murphy_translation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf_in_English#Murphy_t... Also, all the copies for sale appear to be from just before or just after the start of WWII, which means they'd likely have annotations of little modern scholarly value.