Shopify Adds New Restrictions on Merchants Selling 'Hateful' and Offensive Products

Shopify adds new restrictions on merchants selling 'hateful' and offensive products

Shopify Inc. tightened rules against “hateful content” as users sell racist merchandise using its popular e-commerce platform, roughly a year after removing a similar ban.

Shopify Revives a ‘Hateful Content’ Ban Amid Sales of Racist Merchandise

Shopify Inc. tightened rules against “hateful content” as users sell racist merchandise using its popular e-commerce platform, roughly a year after removing a similar ban.

Shopify updated a help page in May to tighten its rules against “hateful content” like racist merchandise, after removing a similar ban in July 2024

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Shopify Revives A ‘Hateful Content’ Ban Amid Sales Of Racist Merchandise

Shopify Inc. tightened rules against “hateful content” as users sell racist merchandise using its popular e-commerce platform, roughly a year after removing a similar ban.A company help page describing prohibited product types on its app and payment system Shop was updated since May to add a ban on “products promoting hateful content, violence, gore, profanity or offensive content,” based on archived versions of the website reviewed by Bloomberg…