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Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the enough-is-enough dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Buzzfeed is reporting that "An online merchant has accused the Bernie Sanders campaign of 'trademark bullying'. after a Bernie 2016, Inc. attorney sent him a cease and desist letter regarding t-shirts, mugs, and sweatshirts depicting the candidate with historic communist leaders..." The t-shirt's designer tells Buzzfeed "He didn't seem to be the type of candidate, the type of guy, who would do something like this... I would think Bernie, or one of his staff members will step in and put an end to it. It appears to be pretty silly."
In January Ars Technica reported that lawyers for the Sanders campaign had demanded their logo be removed from pages on Wikipedia -- before later withdrawing that DMCA notice.

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  1. Yawn. by Ixokai · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I tried to argue this, but the site is so clearly full of douchbags and jerkoffs that I don't even care.

    Guy does not think he is a communist (hint: "democratic socialist" is not the same thing) Neither is "socialist") Random website he knows fuck all about uses his name and image without endorsement or permission, and... TRADEMARK BULLYING.

    Fuck, no.

    The douchebag is strong here: and that's not with the Bernie campaign.

    Either way its not a story.

    1. Re:Yawn. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      defending a trademark is not bullying.
      in fact, its required, or else you lose trademark status.

    2. Re:Yawn. by cyberchondriac · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Exactly. This is getting to be part and parcel of the neoprogressive movement, it's a growing trend. It's funny to them when they rake the opposition over the coals, and call them various insults or stereotypical sweeping labels: morons, idiots, stupid, bigots, inbreds, homophobes, islamophobes, racists, sexists, etc.., and that's just "free speech"; but it's clearly offensive when anyone lobbies a criticism at the progressives, they label that as "hate speech" and there's a strong push to shut it down and silence it.
      That sure sounds like democracy in action to me. (/sar)

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  2. Re: This isn't even a story. by silentcoder · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nobody has called Trump "literally Hitler" - since that would be physically impossible. Identical speeches ? Also echoed in the speeches of the only NAZIs to every actually run a country for an extended period of time WITHOUT being at war (notably Verwoerd, Botha and Vorster's) speeches. Identical proposals and policies to not-yet-in-power Hitler ?
    Entire speeches that could have been quoted from Mein Kampf ?

    Literally Hitler ? No.
    As close as makes no fucking difference ? Only somebody who is utterly ignorant of history could fail to see it.

    But then - ALL NATIONALISM is Nazism, the NAZIs abandoned the socialist part of their name long before they ever even got in power - hell during their failed coup attempt in 1921 they killed all the socialists in parliament before being thrown out. The very first thing they did after president Hitler declared himself Fuhrer was to kill every socialist in parliament (again) - 400 people executed in a single night.
    But the nationalism - they clung to that. All nationalism is 100% absolutely and utterly inexcusable evil. And it's an evil no less prevalent in the United States than it was in Germany.
    Those who love their country, and associate that love with a specific nation - are doomed to repeat ALL the worst evils humanity have visited on one another because with zero exceptions it was ALWAYS nationalism that drove it. It was Nationalism that drove appartheid (hell the party doing it was even called the "National Party"). It was Nationalism that drove the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Nationalism that exploded in the genocide in Serbia under Milosovich.

    There is no version of Nationalism, especially ethno-Nationalism that has ever or could ever fail to lead to atrocity. All nationalists are Hitler WANABES. Nearly none of them know it. They seem to only ever figure that out AFTER they did something fucking terrible.

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  3. Re: US election by CronoCloud · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Pretty much everybody but the very top brass

    So basically all the Gomer Pyle's then.

    That's how we got this whole "women in combat" and "gay integration" thing. Needless to say it will go away instantly with a Republican president.

    Didn't go away with the second Bush, considering women have been piloting combat aircraft since 1993.

    And Women flying AH64 Apaches who kill from above with 30mm cannons and Hellfires.

    And gay people have been fighting for this country ever since this country was founded.