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Taken directly from BRCC's website @ http://blog.blackriflecoffee.com/evan-hafer-controversy-black-rifle-coffee/

Q: Some critics have connected your branding and imagery, specifically the Silencer Smooth coffee blend, to those of the Nazi movement. Is there any truth to those allegations?

A: Evan Hafer: Well, considering the fact that my COO and I are both Jewish, I have a huge issue with people who compare us to or accuse us of being Nazis. It proves just how crazy some people are, and how far they are willing to reach in order to criticize a company they don’t like. They are literally willing to call a Jew a Nazi in order to get traffic to their blog article, or gain more Twitter followers. It seems that many in our country these days will automatically default to accusing people of being a Nazi, or being a racist, misogynist, or… the list goes on. I don’t think we’ve earned or deserve to be compared to Nazis by any stretch of the imagination.

Taken directly from BRCC's website @ http://blog.blackriflecoffee.com/evan-hafer-controversy-black-rifle-coffee/ Q: Some critics have connected your branding and imagery, specifically the Silencer Smooth coffee blend, to those of the Nazi movement. Is there any truth to those allegations? A: Evan Hafer: Well, considering the fact that my COO and I are both Jewish, I have a huge issue with people who compare us to or accuse us of being Nazis. It proves just how crazy some people are, and how far they are willing to reach in order to criticize a company they don’t like. They are literally willing to call a Jew a Nazi in order to get traffic to their blog article, or gain more Twitter followers. It seems that many in our country these days will automatically default to accusing people of being a Nazi, or being a racist, misogynist, or… the list goes on. I don’t think we’ve earned or deserve to be compared to Nazis by any stretch of the imagination.

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[–] • 3 pts

You outlined the exact problem. There are an endless number of possible user names, if someone decides to use a registered trademark, they deserve what they get when the owner sees it and files a legal complaint.

Now I'm no fan of Voat anymore, but what exactly would you have them do? Decline to honor the BRCC'd legal request, then spending a huge amount of time and money fighting something they'll eventually lose? That makes zero sense. Whoever it was that decided it was cool to use the name is at fault here, not Voat, not BRCC. This isn't censorship in any way, shape, or form ... it's simply following the law, which all the platforms have written within their TOS.

[–] • 1 pt

It's dumb

[–] • 2 pts

Dumb, but it's the law. Put yourself in the company's place. God knows what opinions or posts the guy was making, all of which, to anyone who didn't do a ton a research would think was the opinion of the BRCC. No one could complain, for instance, had he simply chosen a username like u/NotBlackRifleCoffeeCompany.

[–] • 1 pt

Making it clear that the account is not officially BRC is one thing. Deleting the account is stifling free speech. No one has made any money off the account or caused BRC to loose Money most likely the opposite. This is just the jew owned BRC not liking the anti-Semitic opinions on voat. Legal or not It dumb