Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott

Re:Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing b... by pnako on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:16PM (#23647749)

Everything is being redefined as hate speech, so that's a moot point.

"White lives matter" and "it's OK to be white" are not remotely hate speech, yet those sentences are being treated as being "white supremacist" stuff now.

The laws in Europe are 1) not that great and 2) won't work in the US thanks to the 1st amendment.

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Re:Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing b... by mythrwy on Thursday June 25, 2020 @10:37PM (#23648142)

That's because it's the kind of thing supremacist whites say. Not because it isn't true.

It certainly is legally permissible and agreed, not in and of itself "hate speech", but it is obnoxious and in bad taste and indicates sympathy with a certain point of view. Certainly something a big company wouldn't want to be associated with in the current climate.

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