Salon.com > django dolls http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 11:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Django Unchained” dolls violate eBay’s “offensive materials” policy http://www.salon.com/2013/01/25/django_unchained_dolls_violate_ebays_offensive_materials_policy/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/25/django_unchained_dolls_violate_ebays_offensive_materials_policy/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:15:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13182167 EBay has banned the sale of NECA's infamous "Django Unchained" dolls, action figures inspired by Quentin Tarantino's controversial slave revenge western. Deadline reports:

Listings for the dolls “were removed as they were in violation of our Offensive Materials policy”, an eBay representative tells Deadline. EBay forbids offensive products “that graphically portray graphic violence or victims of violence, unless they have substantial social, artistic, or political value” including “racially or ethnically offensive language, historical items, reproductions, and works of art and media”.

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