Can’t get past paywall, sorry
A company that sells nazi merch is a nazi company.
Pretty sure Shopify took down the site.
Took a long fucking time to do that.
Pretty sure spotify said to not comment about them selling Nazi gear
Yes, pretty standard thing for a company to tell its employees. They usually have some kind of corporate communication department that will speak to the media. You wouldn’t want employees just saying whatever on camera.
Wonder if people should move to WooCommerce: https://opensourcealternative.to/project/woocommerce
DO NOT DO THIS TO YOURSELF
I mean the Wordpress founder alone should be enough. I work a lot w people migrating from Woocommerce and I have not been impressed. API routes that 500 randomly, horribly messy data, etc. That of course is my biased view based on a subset of Woo merchants. I invite anyone looking to migrate from Shopify to heavily weigh their options.
I’d recommend you contact any companies you’ve made a purchase from that uses Shopify as their backend. Tell them seeing the shop logo at checkout makes you feel uncomfortable going forward with a purchase knowing that Shopify also sells Nazi goods.
wasn’t shopify started by 2 Germans?
that’s surprisingly spineless
Shopify is a Nazi company, or at least sympathetic to Nazis.
You repeat yourself.
because they told their front line support to say “no comment” on matters unrelated to Shopify stores? it seems like they took the store down, which really has little to do with the influx of support tickets and calls they likely got. I worked support for years – this is amazingly unsurprising and I think the correct move, if they did indeed take down the store that is.
e: spacing
Wait he bought a super bowl ad to sell Nazi merch?
Yeezy, the apparel brand of musician Kanye West, is using Shopify’s technology to sell the swastika T-shirt. The Ottawa-headquartered commerce firm has yet to say publicly whether it will intervene. West, also known as Ye, bought a Super Bowl ad to direct people to the website. The store currently displays a single product named “HH-01,” a white T-shirt with the black version of the swastika used by the Nazi Party.
A current Shopify employee told The Logic that another member of staff, who is Jewish, had said on the company’s internal Slack messaging service they were uncomfortable that West’s store had been allowed to remain online for such a long time. The post had a number of supportive emoji reactions underneath.
The Shopify employee, whom The Logic agreed not to name because they were not authorized to speak to the press, said they first saw an alert about West’s store on Shopify’s Slack messaging system at around 2 p.m. ET Monday. In a response to the alert, someone from Shopify’s incident response team said senior leadership was “on top of it.”
Around 30 minutes later, support staff tasked with speaking to Shopify’s merchant clients were told to give “no comment” if a merchant asked about West’s swastika T-shirt and to end the chat if they established the merchant didn’t have questions about their own store.
And a 30-second Superbowl ad costs $8 million.
The worst part is, now that America has really showed its true underbelly, he’ll probably make all of that back plus a tidy profit.
Yeap, Tobias Lütke is our very own Canadian Muskrat… just as racist, just as stupid, just as full of himself
