Etsy is banning its merchants from selling products that include the Washington Redskins name and logo, writing in a blog post this week that the decision was made because the teams name is disparaging and damaging to Native Americans. Etsy has had a longstanding policy that prohibits many hateful or demeaning products from being sold on […]
Federal Communications Commission chair Tom Wheeler has come out against the name of the Washington Redskins, saying that hed like to see it change but that hes hoping the change will be the result of public pressure. As head of the FCC, Wheeler could use broadcast regulations to make use of the team name difficult, […]
The US Patent and Trademark Office has cancelled six trademarks belonging to the Washington Redskins, the NFL team thats found itself the target of increasing backlash over using a racist slur as its name. These registrations must be cancelled because they were disparaging to Native Americans at the respective times they were registered, the USPTO […]
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