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I don't really understand this. Before advertisers had a stranglehold on the remaining American cable networks and newspapers, did cable networks and newspaper
by rolltiide 7y ago
I don't really understand this.
Before advertisers had a stranglehold on the remaining American cable networks and newspapers, did cable networks and newspapers consistently get "de-platformed" into non-existence if they violated an advertiser's social stance?
Like, are the populist calls for deplatforming that we see on social media today against other organizations (which advertisers sometimes agree with) new? Or is this just history repeating itself until we get tightly corporate governed internet media that never runs afoul of social norms, slightly "pushing the envelope" on occassion for shock value and entertainment.
- Analemma_ 7y agoNo, but I suspect that’s only because before the Internet there was no easy way to organize a critical mass of people to name-and-shame platforms which aired objectionable content, not because back then we had objections to the concept of deplatforming.
- prepend 7y agoI remember in the 80s and 90s there were campaigns to deplatform musicians from Walmart. At the time Walmart was where most music was sold so getting taken out meant lots of lost sales. Some artists changed their work. Some released sanitized versions. Some skipped Walmart.
- fuzz4lyfe 7y agoI remember when you were considered left wing when you defended those artists.
- prepend 7y agoIt’s so weird how people have flipped. Nowadays Walmart would be lauded for “choosing who to do business with” or whatever the appropriate phrasing is for companies not doing business with people we don’t like.
- rolltiide 7y agowhereas only right wing people are being deplatformed now and only right wing people are defending them? I get the feeling that this country requires an external enemy solely to maintain cohesion