Sunday, November 17, 2024

Corporate censorship at Vistaprint


Vistaprint's customer care (apparently doubling as content police) wouldn't print this tee shirt.  It's a replica of one I wanted to buy in Las Vegas but didn't have time. The text reads:

"I don't need sex. The government f*cks me every day"

I added the * to avoid being explicitly offensive but apparently that's still too much for the prudes at Vistaprint, where, obviously, no one uses offensive language. 

Side note - it's unclear what the objection was.  Is it the word "fuck" which, BTY, appears, albeit relatively infrequently, in The Economist? Or is it the use of the word in relation to our government?    

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