Major Online Retailer Offers Products With Veiled Threats Against Obama

Zazzle, a website that allows users to customize not just products for themselves, but products to sell to others, is selling t-shirts and bumper stickers with racist comments and veiled death threats against President Barack Obama.

Zazzle vendors are like those at CafePress. They can upload their own content and create their own products that they can purchase for themselves or be sold by Zazzle.

The majority of the products that were first found by RightWingWatch and are the work of a single Zazzle designer named NOBAMAMAN. Obviously an anti-Obama activist, his products include such lines as "Abort Obama," "Send Barack Obama Shooting With Cheney," and more.

Now, Zazzle has deals with both the Walt Disney Company and the Library of Congress allowing them to use their imagery on their customized products. Perhaps they need to re-think that.

It should be added that the Zazzle FAQ on "Acceptable Content Guidelines" says the following (among others):

• No content that is libelous or defamatory
• No content that can reasonably be viewed as harassing, threatening, or otherwise harmful
• No hate speech
• No content that can reasonably be viewed as discriminatory based upon race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability
• No content that violates or encourages anyone else to violate any law

Based on this, this guy should be banned, permanently from Zazzle. Why has he not? Certainly his content is "not acceptable" per their guidelines.