Daughter of 9/11 victim blasts Etsy over ad mocking attack

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A shirt that appears to be revealing the 9/11 terrorist attacks has aroused the anger of a woman who lost her father on the day.

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Amy Stabile’s father was killed in a tragedy in 2001 when Etsy’s odorless shirt appeared when he scrolled on Facebook.

It features a cartoon cat Garfield shaped like an airplane flying towards two lasagna on both sides – similar to the Twin Towers.

The title next to the graphic says: “9/11? Yes! I want an order for 911…lasagne!

“I can’t believe my eyes,” Stabile told Do. “When I saw Garfield – I didn’t even understand how it was together.”

She continued: “There are a lot of things you can wear on a T-shirt. Why is this? You feel so frustrated that someone, anyone, can think of these loss of life as interesting.”

The Etsy ads appearing on Stabile’s feed are sold by Australian seller Nelliesneststore, a North Carolina seller.

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The store’s profile reads “Silly Fool Products” and has a five-star rating, after which the shirt is pulled out of the store people Report.

But a quick search of Etsy for “Garfield 9/11 shirts” brought up at least three other stores selling the same graphic t-shirts – a seller’s design shows two actual buildings instead of lasagna, which doesn’t even make much sense.

According to their website, Etsy’s policy prohibits “promoting, supporting or glorifying hatred, promoting hatred that supports or glorifying violence”, but a spokesperson told the media that humor is subjective.

The spokesman added that they did not intend to delete the items, but to make sure the shirts did not appear in the ad.

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But this is not enough for stability, and he believes that the online market should have stricter content policies.

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“Maybe it’s time to start developing policies that violate the company’s policies,” she said.

“You’re making money [off] Terrorism,” she continued: “Where are these companies? Stand up for the family on 9/11 and do something for it. ”

According to his prosecutor, Stace’s father, Herman Broghammer, had been at a meeting on the 103rd floor of the South Tower, World Trade Center when he died.

“At some point, what you want to say is, ‘There is some humanity and think about how you make money.”

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