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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) by art guerrilla on Sunday November 20 2016, @02:47PM
ummm, ye-a-a-a-h-h-h-no...
you are falling into the left/right trap, mein gut freund...
it is NOT left/right we 99% should be concerned with, we can sort that out in the wash; it is the top/bottom, 1%/99% schism which is the problem...
the 1% WANT US to be divided and to blame each other for what are -ultimately- the problems from the 1% having control, NOT libtards, you conservatard...
if you think our present Emperor -or even the failed Empress- are in any way, shape, or form 'liberal' or progressive in any meaningful way, then you have bought into the reich-wing propaganda of false liberalism... these neo-lib con artistes are more rethug than dem'rat, more for Empire than for the people...
for dog's sake, the obamacare centerpiece of his administration is a fucking rethug idea to ENTRENCH and preserve the parasitic health insurance industry (and most importantly , the continued stream of donations), NOT TO ACTUALLY provide health CARE, but to MANDATE being extorted by the insurance parasites...
that is YOUR SIDE's shit 'plan', the stupid dem'rats just ran with it... you think a real iiberal/progressive would even consider a steaming pile of shit like that ? ? ?
GTFOH...
further, this 'fake news' feint is not a 'liberal' vs 'conservative' agenda item, this is the desire of Empire... this is TOTALLY aimed at the wikileaks and other alt media who do not bow to Empire's will as the mainstream media willingly does... this is TOTALLY to be able to discredit the pesky little mammalian alt media who are running circles around the Big Media dinosaurs, and reporting more truth and salient issues than they are... The They are losing control of the message, thus this 'purge' of too often truth-telling media...