But amazon and ebay are still selling plenty of Che Guevara merchandise, though he was a merciless mass murderer. Being a Communist murderer is A-OK, apparently. Lousy hypocrites.
Inside the cover is the band standing in front of the stars & bars. Someone complained to customer service that I was selling a forbidden symbol.
I agreed that the band was standing in front of a flag, but so what? It was a southern rock group. Again, what was the TOS warning for?
I got bounced up to a supervisor who removed the warning from the account (two of these warnings in 3 months, and you're banned from selling on eBay for 3 months, three in a year, and your account is permanently gone.) The supervisor apologized, it was an incidental image, had nothing to do with terms of service, and I was more than welcome to re-list the item, with a credit for the listing that was cancelled.
I asked the obvious question: is eBay simply approving these complaints as they come in without looking at the items? And for once, I got an honest answer out of eBay: Yep, for the moment, all of them are being approved, and only if the seller calls in is it being actually reviewed for context.
I'm sure that the same is happening in the iTunes store; interns were sent to go find anything that might have the stars & bars on it, drop the app, send the violation notice, and wait for the developer to appeal to actually look at the issue in context.