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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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I still don't get how asking Voat to not allow a user to pass themselves off as them is such a horrifying thing.

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It's annoying they won't even talk to Putts.

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I agree, but in our world it's to be expected. It's a legal matter, so CEO doesn't talk to CEO, they pay lawyers for that. No one wants to say something they shouldn't have when they pay people to take care of such things. Putt probably hasn't hit the right desk yet.

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If voat will cave and change a user's name because a company says they can't use the name where does it stop? What if I Microsoft or starbucks comes and tells voat no one can use this names and so on. Cuck to one and they will cuck to more.

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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.

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SHUT IT DOWN

also, lol