According to The Guardian, one of world’s biggest advertisers — Unilever — says it will avoid platforms that ‘create division’. It further threatens to take its ad purchases off Facebook and Google, if they cannot reign in hate and protect children. Their chief marketing officer says their online spending sometimes is "little better than a swamp in terms of its transparency".
If this finally is it, I say good riddance to surveillance capitalism.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @05:08PM (3 children)
I think tamping down on some loosely defined element called "division" only makes matters worse. Years of stifling people via political correctness has CREATED more division, rather than stamping it out. Society needs the freedom to have release valves, whether in the form of humor or whatever. Otherwise, stifling thought just causes the pressure to build up until it blows.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday February 13 2018, @10:08PM
> Years of stifling people via political correctness has CREATED more division
I know, right? It's crazy! Long before all that PC bullshit, I could easily find uniformity everywhere I went, because things were neatly sorted between real men and obedient women, and dem negroes went through the other door and to the bathroom by the reservation where all the Indians just drank their booze together. Everyone on the TV and in the movies looked like me and Jesus, too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @10:09PM (1 child)
Ah yes, let us be racist and demeaning cause we NEED it! So, you gonna stop yelling about feminists and antifa then? I mean they need their release valves too...
Don't worry, I actually think this backlash against PC is a good thing, it will let everyone know who around them is truly regressive and should be shunned. Nothing like a voluntary scarlet letter!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @11:01PM
Are you suggesting that the Big Red "A" no longer stands for "adultress"?