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Calls to boycott Facebook are becoming pandemic among businesses worldwide. Numerous businesses are pausing their advertising campaigns on Facebook (FB) – and Instagram, which is owned by Facebook – to boycott the company’s policies around what content it moderates and how. The campaign, called ‘Stop Hate for Profit,’ and organized by the NAACP, Color for… Read more.
I stood with fellow students in the early 1980s in calling on corporations and governments to cripple South Africa’s Apartheid regime with boycotts, divestments, and sanctions (BDS). We were trying to force democratic reforms that would grant civil rights to the country’s historically oppressed blacks. I could not have been prouder. But I knew that… Read more.
This week, in an open letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron, acclaimed renaissance man Stephen Fry added his voice to those calling for a boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia to protest that country’s new anti-gay laws. In his inimitably dramatic fashion, Fry suggested that attending the Games in homophobic Russia today… Read more.
