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Boycotting, ostracizing and shaming them didn't work the last fifty times, but it's bound to work this time!
by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Boycotting, ostracizing and shaming them didn't work the last fifty times, but it's bound to work this time!
- misnome 10y agoWhat do you suggest instead?
- mhurron 10y agoSo you just pay people you fundamentally disagree with? Not every boycott is undertaken to change things, they can also be done simply to have nothing to do with what the target is doing.
- exit 10y agoit maybe be a necessary if not sufficient condition
- yedava 10y agoI don't think anyone is under the illusion that Breitbart can be boycotted or shamed. The market they cater to lives in a pretty air-tight bubble, the same bubble which sustains Fox News/Drudge Report/Rush Limbaugh etc....
- nerfhammer 10y agoClickbait becomes pointless if all the ad networks ban them
- pyronik 10y agoYou say this like the left doesn't have its own in the NYT, CNN, ABC, NBC, Huff, Salon, etc... that's much more of an bubbled echo chamber. At least on the right they get bombarded with MSM daily... they just know its straight up corrupt.
- yedava 10y agoThe left has its own biases, but to equate it with the Fox News/Breitbart bubble is dishonest. To take science as an example, the left has its own set of denialists (ex: anti-vaccers, anti-GMO), but the left has plenty of people who push back against such science denialism. The Fox News/Breitbart bubble doesn't have any such checking mechanism. There's a reason why creationism is popular in the US.
- tobltobs 10y agoIt hasn't anything to do with Boycotting. It is just that some advertisers don't wanna pay to have their adverts shown next to those gross discussions.
- geekamongus 10y agoThis is probably the most important point to consider about this situation.
- dhimes 10y agoThis. I simply cannot have my ads on this type of site. So I will seek and pay for ad networks that guarantee that my ads don't appear there. This is simply the free market.
- roywiggins 10y agoIt's possible that it actually has worked, and things would be even worse without.
- striking 10y agoIt's a reference to Trump's presidency, and how some people think it was brought on by left-leaning journalists.