Bjorn S.

Show patience when things are out of stock and keep trying

As a lot of people I was using the facebook plug-in for the comment section of a lot of online publications. I have nothing to hide and I usually stay well within comfortable limits of acceptable speech and respect towards other people and their opinion. With that I might as well use my real name.
To my surprise I received a ban of using certain features of those facebook plug-ins like the comment section for what I believed was 24 hours. But the only information I ever got was a pop-up message that I did not save. There is nothing on my page, in the support section, in settings or anywhere on my facebook site that explains the reason, the offending comment, a timeframe or anything in regards to this "ban". I believe that it must pertain to a comment in which I explained to another commenter that his/her exclusion of calling a group of people by their own chosen name of their identity but their birth identity would not be far different as calling an ethnic group by any derogatory term. I used those terms as an example in my comment for emphasis. Low and behold this might have led to an automatic ban which might not even be sen by any human but done automatically, is not reviewable and will stay on your facebook record. I do understand that facebook is a private site and that facebook is setting the rules. But their rules clearly violate our Freedom of speech to an incredible PC extend with no recourse. This whole system of theirs regulating opinions, and restricting speech as an educational tool is unacceptable in my eyes, besides that too many people post too many times what they had for dinner, but I can block that.

It is actually the easiest to use online printing site, and their clothing merchandise is very good quality. The biggest issue is their inhouse "content" management which has some strange understandings of copyrights and such.
My latest case after several other run ins with that Content Management Team involved a vintage poster that is not copyrighted as I was able to identify but had the name of "United Air Lines" on it. As far as I am concerned that Airline, we know, is called United Airlines and is trademark listed under that spelling, whereas that alternate spelling does not return any trademark. Further research from my side, which I shared with that team, brought to light that the alternate spelling was in use in the very beginning of that airline but got dropped in the 50's and no trademark filings have been made to this alternate spelling as far as I can tell. That Content Management Team still refuses on the basis of that "United Airlines" spelling to produce merchandise, which is a T-shirt for personal use with no commercial interest, since they are not licensed to produce merchandise for United Airlines, not matter that proof I send them that United Air Lines is not trademarked.
I do understand that someone wants to take trademarks and copyrights very seriously but besides the Fair Use Act there is also a certain creative freedom that allows you to take and alter images and make them your own. In the form of words or phrases this becomes at this example a little stubborn on their side since according to their policies you might as well be in violation of printing the word "United" on your t-shirt which has over 10,000 entries in all different combinations at The United States Trademark and patent office.