Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott

Re:Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing b... by kingaillas on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:01PM (#23647234)

This situation appears to me to be corporations freely associating and/or choosing to do business, or not to do business, with other corporations. No government coercion involved in either forcing or blocking this behavior.

In other words, the libertarian ideal of the future.

I don't see the problem. The fact that this behavior isn't universally celebrated is an example of why libertarianism fails in the real world. It doesn't even get the trivial cases.

edit: a word

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Re:Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing b... by papeda on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:03PM (#23647254)

Wait, where did this become a referendum on libertarianism? Nothing in the parent comment suggests this.

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Re:Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing b... by kingaillas on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:12PM (#23647316)

I was just noting that fundamentally this is an issue between two corporations acting in their own interests, and that the government isn't involved.

The OP paraphrased as "we want Facebook to censor", but that actual demand is "we want something that makes us comfortable". Which is a bit different.

These corporations are deciding out of their own free will, to withhold their money.

This seems to me to be ideal behavior from a free market, libertarian, perspective. Correct?

:edit for clarity

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