chaparral wrote:
alex_korr wrote:
chaparral wrote:
alex_korr wrote:
DarkSpeedWorks wrote:
Interesting take on 'cancel culture': https://www.cnn.com/...lity-trnd/index.html
TLDR: 'cancel culture' is not real.
That's kinda questionable. In the case of ebay, they have their members sell MAGA hats, and Biden hats. One of those has to be rude or offensive to about 40% of the population. They also sell Playboy magazines, sex toys, and a million other rude or offensive materials. Here, a simple search for "racist collectibles" gives plenty of outright racist collectibles, but they're still selling these.
I think that eBay will soon find that it is easy to hop on the wokeness treadmill, but impossible to get off. Once you cave in to something that publicly visible, you will be deluged with demands: "If THAT was banned, then what about THIS?"
Can you explain what you are talking about here?
Do you think ebay should NOT have a policy of banning racist things from being sold?
They can have a policy of banning whatever they want. They're private corporation with their own platform rules.
My point is that they need to be ready to deal with people pushing them to deplatform lots and lots of other product categories that may be upsetting to some. Eventually this will start biting into their revenue stream. That's what they are up against now that they hopped on the said treadmill.
Haven't they had the same policy for basically all their existence? Why do you think it is a problem now? Do you have any examples of their policy being a problem?
It's one thing to have a policy saying that you cannot sell t-shirts with Hitler on them (which was btw fairly lightly enforced until perhaps 2015-16 or so).
It's a different story to ban books by a beloved children's book author (Dr Seuss ffs) - and have that ban be very public. I am not going to argue the merits of that ban, that's dependent on one's worldview.
"There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches." --Ray Bradbury
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