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As a result of a social media campaign, last week makers of the famous geek-popular toy highly sophisticated inter-locking brick system the Lego Group has stopped giving away polybags with print copies of the Daily Mail, something it has done for years in occasional promotions.
The Daily Mail is frequently criticised for its right-wing stance and critics often claim that many of the stories are either inaccurate or utterly fabricated, as the quote below from the " Stop Funding Hate" campaign shows:
While I disagree with their political stand I can accept their right to have it. But lately their headlines have gone beyond offering a right wing opinion. Headlines that do nothing but create distrust of foreigners, blame immigrants for everything, and as of yesterday are now having a go at top judges in the U.K. for being gay while making a legal judgment.
Another article from The Independent has more background.
Lego spokesperson Roar Rude Trangbaek told The Independent: "We spend a lot of time listening to what children have to say. And when parents and grandparents take the time to let us know how they feel, we always listen just as carefully.
"[...] The agreement with The Daily Mail has finished and we have no plans to run any promotional activity with the newspaper in the foreseeable future."
Other targets of "Stop Funding Hate" include John Lewis, Waitrose, and Marks & Spencer.
Is this a case of the liberal left shouting and screaming to enforce a kind of corporate self-censorship, or simply free markets and freedom of speech working together as they should?
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @10:19PM
All of this criticism of "the left" sounds very erudite and smart. Except when you recall the past 8 years. Does *anyone* remember the death panels? Glen Beck? Obama - Hitler? Uncountable references to the destruction of America?
But... sure, it was the "the left" that wore everyone everyone with their endless crying wolf.
(Score: 2) by gidds on Tuesday November 22 2016, @02:04PM
You have to remember that many political terms mean very different things in different places.
For example, from a European perspective, the two political parties in the USA would be described as 'very right-wing' and 'insanely right-wing', resp.
As for the shameless rag in the story, it reminds me of one of the methods of brainwashing presented in George Orwell's famous book: people spent two minutes every day rabidly shouting their blind hatred for supposed enemies, as a way of keeping them docile and goodthinking. In today's UK, the Daily Wail would seem to fulfil that role scarily well.
(It's interesting that Orwell did not invent the term; 'Two Minutes Hate' was apparently in common use by WW1.)
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