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Posted by David Sherman on Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 13:03:01 :
In Reply to: AK47 a bad word? posted by Will (in IL) on Sunday, December 28, 2008 at 11:16:14 :
As near as I can tell AK47 is an okay word if you're selling a simulated AK47 airsoft bb gun. However, "AK47 bayonet" is verboten. "Russian military bayonet" is, however, just fine. In the page of banned military items they pointed me to, it said that any accessories or parts for "assault weapons", as defined by the California assault weapons law, were not allowed.
Since they obviously just looked for a key phrase in the description, rather than at what the item actually was, it's clear that they just have a software algorithm that bans things, not a real person monitoring the listings.
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