> use the negative PR to force their censorship upon the medium blackmailing it through the advertisers It's not blackmail if these companies didn't consider t

> use the negative PR to force their censorship upon the medium blackmailing it through the advertisers It's not blackmail if these companies didn't consider the content disagreeable in the first place. Turns out a lot of companies want to save face at any cost, and they will abandon your platform the moment it deviates from their values. If you didn't expect this from Apple, IBM and Oracle, you must have been on vacation when advertisers did this on YouTube: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38965377 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38965377