@maporsche,
maporsche wrote:
I can't even begin to count how many times I've heard that boycotting something is not the same as censorship. It's repeated over and over and over.
Why does that not apply here? It's a digital peaceful protest.
Boycotting something is not censorship. Anyone is welcome to boycott Breitbart all day long. They can go on facebook or teitter or whatever they want to and have pictures of them boycotting Breitbart.
But, when you start telling advertisers that you will talk badly about their company, not because of something that company does, but because they advertise on Brietbart, you are then censoring Brietbart.
That is what censorship is, telling others not to like the things you don't like. A group of things (Sleeping Giant) is trying to shut down Brietbart by telling advertisers not to advertise on Brietbart for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
Do you see the difference?