Last year I tried to sell a more than 100 years old, antique iron Masclet (saluting cannon) which in the german language is named a "Boeller". This name is also applied to pyrotechnic paper bangers, which are prohibited under E-Bay rules. The listing was removed after a few days. When I called the e-Bay service center and told the lady that I had bought this item on E-Bay before, she explained to me, that e-bay has an intelligence program running over all listings, that is fed with certain search words. When the program finds such a word, the listing is automatically removed. The computer is stupid and can not differentiate, like a human brain. Thats also the problem with mashine translations which often only translate to only gibberish. The service lady told me to call another number to talk about this problem with them. I told her to immediately put my listing online again (which she had no authority to do) or that I would cease selling on E-bay. This I did. Here in germany we have since many months a big political problem going on. The german foreign espionage service took over a US communications-interception facility in Bad Eibing some years ago. Since then US services supply the germans with search words and these intercepted personal communications are then given to US services. Under german law it is a criminal offence to intercept personal communications of german citizens without a special court order. The list of search words has only been shown to a very, very small circle of politicans here. The political haggling about this list of search words is still going on here. 99,999 % of german citizens will never know which personal communications have been illegally transferred to foreign users. That's our new digital world.
Bellifortis.
