If everyone else jumped off an X-rated bridge, would you do it, too?
eBay’s justification for segregating “Mature Audiences” materials:
A number of cities segregate stores selling some types of sexually-oriented materials to certain areas of the community. The eBay community segregates certain sexually oriented materials on the Mature Audiences site for the same reasons.
That’s nice. Now, what’s the real reason you segregate it?
Note that pre-1980 Penthouse is allowed on the main site, and post-1980 Playboy is not.
So, weird? Not as weird as the Offensive Items list:
Examples of items that will generally be removed:
* Items that bear symbols of the Nazis, the SS, or the KKK, including authentic German WWII memorabilia such as Olympic medals that bear such marksExamples of items that may generally be listed:
* German coins and postage stamps (canceled or otherwise) from the WWII era regardless of markings
Any philatelist will tell you about the gratuitous Third Reich images on WWII stamps, including close-up depictions of Hitler and images of children juxtaposed with swastikas:
I expect you to flinch at those. Those stamps are OK, but not Olympic medals? Is this an accumulation of unrelated precedents, or is there something I don’t understand going on here?
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