The fast fashion giant says it delisted the items "immediately" from its website and is investigating.

France’s consumer watchdog has reported the Asian fast fashion giant Shein to authorities for selling “sex dolls with a childlike appearance” on its website.

The Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) said the online description and categorisation of the dolls “makes it difficult to doubt the child pornography nature of the content”.

Shein later told the BBC: “The products in question were immediately delisted as soon as we became aware of these serious issues.”

  • Icytrees@lemmy.todayEnglish
    5·
    21 hours ago

    With manufacturing becoming more decentralized it’s only a matter of time before people can print their own.

    It’ll probably be used as a reason to license and monitor 3D printers.

    • ICCrawler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      20 hours ago

      I got where you’re going with that, but presently, 3D printers were, to my knowledge, in the business of printing hard objects. So I double checked and looked it up. Turns out silicon printing does exist, but it’s currently pretty small-scale stuff. Gaskets and the like. But in the process I bumped into a different idea. 3D print the molds used to shape the silicon, then just fill them.

      So yeah, you’re probably right.

      • icelimit@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        18 hours ago

        That’s a terribly slippery slope though. Are we going to ban the possession of hands because we could use our hands to mold dirt?

        • Icytrees@lemmy.todayEnglish
          4·
          17 hours ago

          I don’t think either of us are saying it should happen. It was more of a tongue in cheek joke about how paedophiles are being used to justify censorship, identity politics and restrict freedoms.

          I’m too lazy to look it up at the moment but some governments were looking into ways to tag everything made on a 3D printer so it could be traced back to an owner, but that was because of ghost guns. I don’t agree with that, either.

        • ICCrawler@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          17 hours ago

          Well as far as I’m concerned we’re going to wait and see what happens because I’m not part of any committee that has a say in the matter, I’m not about to put in the work to form one to do so, and in all likeliehood neither are you. But hey, if you are, by all means, salt the ice on the slope. I buy resin minis and paint them, and I wouldn’t exactly appreciate more hurdles in doing that.

      • Icytrees@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3·
        20 hours ago

        This is a good point. I used to share a studio with an entrepreneur who 3D scanned people’s parts to make home printed molds for custom candles.