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Don't carry on with this slogan, says EHRC

August 11, 2016 10:33
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One case taken up recently by the Equality and Human Rights Commission concerned a website, keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk, through which customers can create their own variations on the slogan "Keep Calm and Carry On".

When the commission was alerted to examples such as "Keep Calm and Burn Jews", it wrote to the company to ask for their removal.

Aidan Fitzpatrick, director of Keep Calm Network Ltd, said the company was "very sorry to see this abhorrent content uploaded to our site" and had removed it.

He added that the site had "the capability to automatically block posters with specific words or phrases and we have added the phrase you highlight to this mechanism".

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