Apparently some take issue with my terminology, even though to classify the USA as a fascist nation is accurate.

Perhaps such language has no place here, but I'll not sit by and call a cow a chicken just to please a few geese.

Or, perhaps it is the fact that I actually gave some good advice to Mr Byrne when I said to quickly make a new one & get pictures this time?

For one, Etsy is neither an arm of the US government nor a mega-corporation. It's got a few hundred employees.

Secondly, the issue is that they think he isn't making his stuff by hand. They're not somehow persecuting him because he's a handcraftsman. Selling stuff you make by hand is the entire point of Etsy, and they've built a successful business around it.

Politics is beside the point. You're just not making any sense.

Why does quickly assembling another unit while getting good photos not make sense?

Unable to debate the point(s) of contention, they let their silent votes do the talking.

Take your axe-grinding elsewhere -___-

So, the quickly building another while getting photos thing was a bad idea?

It seems to me that the OP probably has an assembled unit on hand. If so, disassembly followed by reassembly while getting some good photos shouldn't be too tough to do.

That's not what they want to see.. they want shaping and staining wood, free boards and wires, etc. They want nothing => something, essentially.

He's already built the device, so yes, pictures of him sanding and shaping, measuring and cutting, fitting and finishing, should be doable; even if not as fine as he would normally build them, it should be possible to demonstrate and photograph within the allotted time frame.