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"Amid this global movement to end anti-Blackness, we credit these companies for answering our call swiftly and taking a clear stand for what's right so we can hold Facebook accountable for its racist policies," said Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, which is one of the groups organizing the boycott.
Almost 100 firms have joined the boycott so far, Robinson said, adding: "Facebook has a decision to make: adopt a civil rights infrastructure or continue to see key advertisers dropping from its platform."
[...] Most recently, the tension between Facebook and the content its users share has come to a head due to messages posted by President Donald Trump and his re-election campaign in the past month, amid nationwide protests in support of Black communities and against police violence. Twitter in late May took action against a Trump tweet by appending a warning that it glorified violence against protesters, in contravention of the site's rules. Facebook, however, took no action against the same content, and the company took heat from both civil rights advocates and employees over that choice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2020, @11:05PM (7 children)
They're so misguided. Racism will only be inflamed by driving racists into racist enclaves. Let them spout that shit, and don't hide it, make any post or group posting racist content as public as possible. The threat of ostracizing someone works a lot better than passing rules to drive them out.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @12:19AM
OK, Karen!
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Sunday June 28 2020, @01:27AM (5 children)
Except that you have zero evidence to support your assertion, and history shows quite the opposite. People have groupthink: when certain opinions become very unpopular, most people try to conform so they don't become ostracized, and eventually they believe it themselves. Any totalitarian regime will show you that suppressing speech really does work most of the time; only a small number of die-hards hang onto the idea. This works better with some things than others, however. Trying to force people to believe that families are bad and the state is more important than your own family members doesn't work that well because of basic human psychology (they tried this in the early era of the Soviet Union and it didn't go so well, so they gave up). But getting people to believe that racism is wrong isn't that hard, because even small children (and many animals even) intuitively understand the idea of fairness, and racism and discrimination aren't fair. In fact, slavery and other discriminatory practices only flourished because groupthink built up over generations got people to beileve it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @03:01AM
Yes, you're making my point. Racism is extremely broadly recognized as wrong. People will be ostracized and persecuted by their peers for holding such views. Facebook just needs to drag them into the light.
(Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Sunday June 28 2020, @06:20AM (3 children)
The word "racism" has become so weaponized and applied so broadly and promiscuously, it's nearing the meaninglessness of "nazi".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @07:26AM (1 child)
ok boomer
remind me, who are the snowflakes again?
(Score: 1) by hemocyanin on Sunday June 28 2020, @03:37PM
Not a boomer. It seems to me boomers and millennials deserve each other. Wish you'd leave the rest of us alone.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday June 28 2020, @07:34PM
"Anti-Semite" has also been mined out.
It is dangerous to over-use and to broadly mis-use loaded terms such as they. People become unable to discern the real thing, and the polarizing effect of using it like a linguistic "shush" stick sows the seeds of backlash. People from the humanities who deal in language ought to know better, but post-modernism has given them all the equivalent of intellectual diarrhea.
Washington DC delenda est.