At 07:54 AM 1/23/00 +0000, you wrote:
A splokesman for EBay talked on BBC Radio 4 (the best talk radio station
in the world BTW) 2 days ago on the subject of the sale of Nazi and
Concentration Camp "memorabilia". He was asked why EBay was associated
with such a despicable trade; the answer was "..EBay is only a listing
service, we cannot control what is sold through this service ...". This
is a paraphrase BTW.
I'm not sure therefore that EBay has the inclination to police its
operation. It would certainly add to its costs and reduce its profitability.
Too bad they didn't have the balls to say there is nothing illegal about
such items. That's a big slippery slope... once you say no more Nazi items,
then it's no more African-American memorabilia, no more occupied Japan
items, no more homoerotic works like Mapplethorpe, Van Gloeden (just sold a
book of his on ebay), etc etc.
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