People now are like, “Your right to free speech doesn’t mean you can express an offensive opinion”
Like what the fuck does right to free speech mean, then?
I had been
working with a client for MONTHS to get their site live. We talked them out of
multiple absurd things, like icons of sports chasing each other around on a
racing track on the homepage. They were also incredibly non-responsive.
Finally,
after months of very little feedback, we got their approval (I wasn’t confident
they’d even reviewed the final site; it was kind of like a ‘yeah, sure’), and
took it live.
Three days
later:
Client: There are too many mistakes! The
prices you have for the product are all wrong! And there are spelling mistakes
everywhere. Plus, you have a catalog on there that links to the vendor’s site
and they could buy stuff from the vendor instead of us! Take it down
immediately!
I searched
the site frantically for the errors he was talking about. Not finding prices or
spelling mistakes, it slowly dawned on me…
Me: Regarding the wrong prices and spelling, are you talking
about the content on the ecomm site where your clients log in to order their
supplies? We didn’t build or touch any of the content on that site–we simply
linked to it.
Client: …
The
catalog they were talking about was a PDF; the vendor had included a hyperlink
to their own website inside their catalog. It was at the very bottom of the
last page of a 124 page catalog.
