Re:Shopify pulls Donald Trump stores off its platform
by cmurf on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:30PM
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Of course the correct response is that they never should have been doing business with and profiting off the deeply illiberal, anti-democratic, white nationalistic and authoritarian Trump movement, for even one day.
But now Spotify see the toxicity of the Trump brand as exceeding their ability to profit from it. This doesn't make them heroes, just greedy cowards.
Re:Shopify pulls Donald Trump stores off its platform
by gambiting on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:42PM
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>>Bluntly, Shopify clearly thinks it's OK to not sell their software to people who might express ideas they don't approve of.
Sure, as they should have a right to. If they chose to not sell to Biden's campaign they should also be free to do so.
>>By extension, they're also maligning half of America as either too stupid or immoral to have good reasons for voting for Trump.
Your extension is so wild it not only extended past this conversation, it left this solar system. Are you projecting your own beliefs?
I never said they were. But there's no moral difference even if there is a legal one. Bluntly, Shopify clearly thinks it's OK to not sell their software to people who might express ideas they don't approve of.
By extension, they're also maligning half of America as either too stupid or immoral to have good reasons for voting for Trump.
If these merchants aren't worthy of business, by extension, neither are those voters.