Here's a guy who was suspended/restricted for multiple abuses. He's come back to...yes, do the SAME thing again. He's confident he can get away with it because he's not abusing Taylor Swift or Emma Watson or whoever got him busted the last time.
What's needed is a very plain, simple eBay "REPORT ITEM" rule. It should state: "Offensive Materials: Celebrity Nudes" or "Not Allowed At All: Celebrity Nudes" and NOT leave it to somebody in a boiler room in Guam to glance at an item, not know if it's a fake or even a celebrity, and let the item stay.
THIS guy:
This is not just offensive. It's DANGEROUS. Idiot who buy this crap and think it's real are the same ones who STALK celebrities, who mail the images in demanding autographs, and even write about the sex fantasies they expect the star to MAKE A REALITY.
Why would somebody sell this stuff? Somebody with no conscience? Somebody who hates celebrities in general and WOMEN IN PARTICULAR? Someone who doesn't respect a woman's privacy or her intellectual property?
Ironically, this seller copyrights the GAY ARTWORK he makes himself. He doesn't want anyone else selling it.
In this ad, the seller praises himself (in the third person) as a great artist, because he solarizes some stolen nude male image. Or perhaps it's HIMSELF? Either way, he makes sure to state that the image is COPYRIGHTED and a LIMITED EDITION. Now you get the idea why he thinks that he can sell downloaded Photoshop fake images of women he found on woman-hate porn sites in Croatia. They're merely WOMEN.
Here's another seller who was ALSO stopped so often that he got a restriction/suspension and was out for about six months. He comes back and...posts ONE THOUSAND fake nudes, stolen invasion of privacy images, and screen captures from copyrighted movies.
This sexual predator, this offender, this psychotic sociopath, comes off VeRO stoppages and decides to prey on any woman who hasn't filed against him.
Just as the RIAA can go after ANY bootlegger on a blog, SAG-AFTRA should be able to file on behalf of ANY of its members. If a rock star's office or a celebrity's office wants to file, fine, but there should be a way to knock out sellers like this, and make it PERMANENT.
Monkey see monkey do. When these two sellers flood eBay with MORE abusive material, whether it's a gay, woman-hating lunatic or a cheap New Jersey bastard, others follow. That includes these items, also on EBAY today, the Ides of May.
This seller, who is probably a return offender using a new name, only charges $1.50 for his atrocities. Why? Because he's a misogynist-pimp, and he gets off on OWNING all the women he abuses. He cackles to himself every time he makes a sale off them. Whether it's an obvious fake on Aniston (who clearly has NO VeRO rep and has managers and agents who slam the phone down on anyone pointing this out) or a gleeful "nipple slip" on Gellar, THIS guy is laughing all the way to the bank.
EBAY should make it simple for anyone to hit "REPORT ITEM" and scroll a menu to: "PROHIBITED...and ADULT/celebrity material" or "Offensive materials...celebrity nudes." EBAY's "offensive materials" category specifically states that KKK and Nazi material and photos of corpses and other specific things are forbidden. NOTHING about misogyny or exploitation of women. WHY?
Several more smellers...er, SELLERS...could be added, but you get the idea. Here's a seller who calls himself BUYER'S DELIGHT for abusing women. Another thinks "ALL THAT GLITTERS" is fake nudes he can sell because he hates women and likes to pimp their images on a power trip. Another seems to think NAPTIMEZ involve abusing women with nightmare Photoshop fakes while championing his own gay artwork.
All should be suspended and should quickly be suspended and have their Paypal accounts ended if they come back again. Oh...more than that. You did notice that ALLTHATGLITTERS does NOT have Paypal listed in his ad? They cut him lose so all he can do is accept checks and money orders. As if that's not a warning sign to eBay! He tells people who PM him that, yes, he can accept a regular credit card if someone gives him their credit card number and forwards a list of the Photoshop fakes desired. Ebay doesn't even get a percentage of these sales and STLL allows the loophole??
What is needed? Prosecuting eBay (main office in San Diego) and CEO Devin Wenig for lazily allowing this abuse of California AND Federal law? Or will eBay wise up. And will more celebrities and their reps take the brief time to stamp out the parasites who are endangering lives by encouraging sex-obsessed stalkers?
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