Amazon removes doormats depicting Indian flag following visa ban threat

[mbrowne5061]

I don't really care to buy flag doormats. But, as a Canadian, I do respect the fact that this is a form of free speech (or whatever you want to call it). If someone in Canada wants to buy one, let them. Someone in India shouldn't be able to dictate what another country can buy from a corporation that doesn't originate from their country.
It sets a bad precedent.

While I personally agree, Amazon is also a publically traded, for-profit company. They have a duty to their shareholders to grow the business and maximize profits. If this means removing one single, third-party, niche item from an international site, in order to ensure continued ease of growth in one of the fastest developing markets in the world, then they absolutely made the right call.

But the non-capitalist part of me whole-heartedly agrees with you - another country shouldn't be able to dictate the sale of one product in another nation's market.

 

[amghwk]

After this silliness I would suggest they simply print the flag in the inside of every diaper they sell ....

No wonder incidents like Charlie Hebdo happen

 

[wizardB]

In answer to this stupidity I'm going to be marketing Indian flag toilet paper and am sending a few free rolls to this over zealous *****.

 

[Verencius]

That reminds me of:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/04/11/bush-sr-doormat-in-baghdad-hotel-dismantled.html

"U.S. soldiers visited the battered Al-Rashid on Thursday night wielding hammers and chisels, and dug out the intricate tile mosaic of the former president that was used for years as a state-sponsored insult.

In its place, they laid a portrait of Saddam Hussein.

"Everybody walked over it and wiped their feet on it," Lt. Col. Rick Schwartz, the battalion commander said. He left the Saddam portrait behind, on the ground for future use."

I guess everyone in Palestine would like to have an Israeli flag doormat, Pakistani's would like to have Indian flags and Indian's would like to have a Pakistani flag. And in the end we would have a LOT of resentment in the world.

Is is seriously worth it just because in the name of "freedom of speech" we would like to step on the symbols somebody bled and died for.