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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The sad thing I cant do anything more to hurt funko as I've never bought their stupid little dolls

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

They've done enough to hurt themselves.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Makes me wonder if the report was for something like itch.io/blah but it took the whole site down. If they're not being dishonest, I could see going to registrar about a site imitating to be yours for phishing.

Funko still deserves some flak for, at least, using an automated tool (or a setting) that is so insanely aggressive. Maybe the registrar holds some blame too.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Some people are looking past the partner or putting "partner" in quotes.

Funko doesn't handle these takedown requests, they hired BrandShield for this. BrandShield definitely went overboard and their reputation is at risk.

I've shopped around for brand protection in the past when scammers registered a domain name with my company's name in it, and used it to do fake job offers. We got the domain suspended by contacting the registrar, but we didn't know about it until it was reported to us.

[–] ayyy 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I could go with this if they actually apologized and fired BrandShield. They did neither of those things, so have demonstrated their full endorsement of BrandShield’s fraudulent behavior.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

They were hired specifically to go overboard and risk reputation. To shield brand from reputational damage of scorching internet. It's even in their name.

Tsar is good, blame the boyars.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

The factory didn’t beat up the strikers. The Pinkertons did it. Don’t hate the factory owner who hired them to beat up the striking workers.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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