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These bricks-and-mortar analogies don’t work at all, because you can still stand outside the cigarette shop, protest Philip Morris, and hand out flyers. Once d
by inopinatus 5y ago
These bricks-and-mortar analogies don’t work at all, because you can still stand outside the cigarette shop, protest Philip Morris, and hand out flyers.
Once deplatformed, there’s no equivalent line-of-sight.
- thehappypm 5y agoI think the Mall analogy is downright perfect. The mall is a beautiful, shiny, clean building where you go to hang out with your friends. The shops in the mall are there to lure you to go buy stuff. You aren't paying the mall, but by being there, you're likely to buy something at J. Crew or the food court. If the mall had an anti-mall lunatic out front, they'd surely remove them too.
- inopinatus 5y agoIn some festering neo-Randite authoritarian’s wet dreams of corporate dystopia, sure. When did so many people internalise the fiction of companies as their new feudal overlord?
- thehappypm 5y agoIs this an AI generated comment?
- inopinatus 5y agoNo more so than "The mall is a beautiful, shiny, clean building where you go to hang out with your friends".
- jreese 5y agoI mean, you're seeing their article on Slate. It's not like they've been banned from the entire internet or all news media.
- inopinatus 5y agoActually, no, cigarette advertising has been banned in many countries.