I have already bounced this over to our legal committee, who are discussing it with their wider legal network. But that aside, don't underestimate the power of spreading the word and boosting the signal, which is why I made this post. Cases like this are tricky, because Zazzle probably has the right to host or not host whatever they want: but they're WRONG to say that they're not hosting it because its infringing Viacom (its really NOT), and they probably wouldn't like it if people started saying that they are discriminating against antiracist free speech (or that they were supporting Viacom in suppressing race-based criticism of Avatar: TTA.) It may be a PR war as much as anything.
At the moment, we rant, we network, and we wait.
I have already bounced this over to our legal committee, who are discussing it with their wider legal network. But that aside, don't underestimate the power of spreading the word and boosting the signal, which is why I made this post. Cases like this are tricky, because Zazzle probably has the right to host or not host whatever they want: but they're WRONG to say that they're not hosting it because its infringing Viacom (its really NOT), and they probably wouldn't like it if people started saying that they are discriminating against antiracist free speech (or that they were supporting Viacom in suppressing race-based criticism of Avatar: TTA.) It may be a PR war as much as anything.