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What I find weird is why does anyone think ANY of these companies are meant to uphold free speech in the American sense? Does Abercrombie and Fitch (or most fa
by _carbyau_ 6y ago
What I find weird is why does anyone think ANY of these companies are meant to uphold free speech in the American sense?
Does Abercrombie and Fitch (or most fashion companies) make clothes of all sizes? No? Because what they produce is part of their brand as much as their marketing. They don't want overweight people wearing their stuff, it makes the brand not what they want it to be. Whether that is good or not is another debate.
Same with Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Parler or ANY other media platform. What they show publicly is part of their brand, along with their marketing etc.
The real issue is that society has come to see these brand platforms as being an inherent part of their ability to communicate. But they are borrowed megaphones at best.
- ssivark 6y agoSee SCOTUS justice Clarence Thomas’ comments on why this such an alarming problem. (Was on HN front page recently) https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/thomas-scotus-twitter-trump-ban https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/thomas-scotus-twitter-tru... and https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20579870/order-list-04_05_2021.pdf https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20579870/order-li...
- ct0 6y agoThe problem that I see in the logic is that Twitch is kicking people off of the platform that were at one point of their lives too fat to fit into an Abercrombie and Fitch T-shirt. If they are no longer fat, they still cant be part of the community or buy the t-shirt if it was up to Twitch.
- _carbyau_ 6y agoCompanies do dumb stuff to their branding ALL the time. See the Wix article where they shoot themselves in their own foot. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26728471 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26728471) I am NOT saying Twitch is doing a good job. But it is the company's platform, not society's, and they can do whatever stupid thing they want with it.