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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/19/tech/north-face-facebook-ads/index.html:
Outdoor apparel brand The North Face has become the best-known company yet to commit to an advertising boycott of Facebook in light of the social media platform's handling of misinformation and hate speech — a move that could open the door for other brands to do the same.
The brand's decision responds to a pressure campaign by top civil rights groups, including the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation League, known as #StopHateForProfit, which on Wednesday began calling for advertisers to suspend their marketing on Facebook in the month of July.
"We're in," The North Face tweeted. "We're out @Facebook #StopHateForProfit."
Hours later, outdoor equipment retailer REI said it will join the boycott.
[...] The activists demanding change face an enormously ambitious task. Facebook is the second-largest player in US digital marketing after Google, and last year generated $69.7 billion from advertising worldwide.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @09:35AM (1 child)
Seems like a good reason to ban it. Why do you think other people should allow you to advertise your hate and contempt for other people, snowflake?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday June 23 2020, @12:22PM
Probably because they have a First Amendment right to wave around any flag that they want, even the loser's flag. Not at private events like a NASCAR race, and they might have to knit the flag themselves if nobody sells it anymore, but you don't get to "allow" it.
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