Statement by Spreadshirt CEO, Philip Rooke
Two community-submitted designs on the Spreadshirt platform, ‘Save a shark Eat a Chinese’ and ‘Save a dog Eat a Chinese’, have been discussed. After close examination and careful consideration, we have decided to keep these designs on our platform.
Spreadshirt provides an open platform that allows anyone to create, buy, sell, and share ideas on merchandise. These ideas come from a wide variety of sources. Our community includes over 70,000 active partners worldwide, including a diverse group of artists, musicians, corporations and brands, non-profits and organizations, as well as political groups.
Spreadshirt’s role is to enable our community’s ideas to get to market and to fulfill them with print-on-demand. We do not judge or censor designs based on their phrasing, social, or political leanings.
This open platform principle will mean that, in a few cases, some people may find a design controversial while others do not.
We have no intention of causing anyone offense, and I apologize to anyone who takes any offense from the two designs in question.