@blatham,
blatham wrote:
I had not heard of this but I very much like it. Breitbart is, of course, an enemy of the people.
Quote:Since the 2016 presidential election, more than 1,400 companies — and counting — have yanked their advertising from the right-wing website Breitbart News, where President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was formerly the editor-in-chief.
The ad removals are the result of consumer backlash spearheaded by the Sleeping Giants, an anonymous collective of progressive activists who organize their protests on social media. The group has been urging people to blitz corporations with wake-up calls about the message the corporations are sending when they advertise on Breitbart, which is known for incendiary content that is frequently unsourced, false, and/or deliberately distorted.
http://www.vox.com/culture/2017/3/8/14700772/breitbart-advertiser-backlash-sleeping-giants
I have mixed feelings about this. Briebart does what Briebart does. That's the beauty of freedom in America. I see it as everything else, if you don't like it, don't watch/read/whatever it. At the same time, I think people have the right to peacefully protest things.
However, now a group of anonymous twits (who are probably mostly bots) is trying to censor an organization through boycotting advertisers unless they stop their advertising on Briebart. I think that censorship in any form is wrong.
Stop trying to tell other people that they need to think like you.
Now, imagine some whacked out religious organization with millions of worshipers were to tell advertisers that if they advertised on CNN they would boycott their goods. How would you feel if those advertisers capitulated?