I have a Toshiba Satellite C655 laptop. The Toshiba proprietary software often prevents me from being able to to close those annoying floating pop-up ads one encounters on the net. If, like me, you believe that your computer should not be hamstrung to prevent you from avoiding or shutting down these assholes then you should not buy their products.
The company that is currently preventing me from using my computer to read the news is a company called Vizu. Vizu's corporate address and phoe number is 185 Berry Street, Suite 5200, San Francisco, CA 94107, Phone: 415.362.8498. Go ahead, give them a call. I'm sure they'd love to hear from you how much consumers love their product. Vizu is a Nielsen company. Their media contact is Julia Monti, Nielsen - 646-654-4412 - Julia.monti@nielsen.com. Give here a call or drop her a line, too. She'd love to hear from you.
Showing posts with label Rich CEOs who Bully. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rich CEOs who Bully. Show all posts
Monday, August 27, 2012
Thursday, August 2, 2012
One Day Does Not a Boycott Make
So Chick-Fil-A sold a lot of chicken and waffle fries yesterday. So what. It's not a secret that there are a lot of people out there who think that the State should be determining its policy based on a Christian ethic. They're wrong, of course. The First Amendment makes that much clear if it is clear on any matter at all. There are two reasons why I will continue to boycott Chick-Fil-A and you should too, no matter where you stand on gay marriage.
First, Dan Cathy and his family have supported groups that actively oppose legislation to afford civil rights protection to same-sex couples, using the company's money. Any person is free to believe what they believe, free from persecution. However, commercial speech, speech by a corporate or other business entity, is subject to less protection. Because the purpose of the entity is to make a profit, it is not appropriate for the entity to be enaging in political speech except in very limited circumstances. Chick-Fil-A has not played bby those rules, so the Court has interpreted the First Amendment to afford less protection to commercial speech. One of the areas in which corporations have less freedom than individuals or non-commercial organizations is advocating a discriminatory treatment by the State of a protected class.
Second, the purpose of a boycott is not to make a big, flash-mob style media event and then go back to business as usual. The purpose is to make the object of the boycott feel financial pain. I don't care how much chicken the Cathys sold yesterday, or how many pounds Mike Huckabee gained back. It wasn't enough to keep them from feeling the pain of every citizen who believes the Government has no business telling folks who they can and cannot marry based on what the Bible says (and let's face it, you can find a passage in the Bible to support any position, including incest, rape, murder, and mob attacks) deciding they won't add their hard-earned money to the profits the Cathys use to make them moe hated or make their life more difficult.
The results of the boycott will be evident in the decreasing quarterly earnings the company reports. This match ain't hardly started.
First, Dan Cathy and his family have supported groups that actively oppose legislation to afford civil rights protection to same-sex couples, using the company's money. Any person is free to believe what they believe, free from persecution. However, commercial speech, speech by a corporate or other business entity, is subject to less protection. Because the purpose of the entity is to make a profit, it is not appropriate for the entity to be enaging in political speech except in very limited circumstances. Chick-Fil-A has not played bby those rules, so the Court has interpreted the First Amendment to afford less protection to commercial speech. One of the areas in which corporations have less freedom than individuals or non-commercial organizations is advocating a discriminatory treatment by the State of a protected class.
Second, the purpose of a boycott is not to make a big, flash-mob style media event and then go back to business as usual. The purpose is to make the object of the boycott feel financial pain. I don't care how much chicken the Cathys sold yesterday, or how many pounds Mike Huckabee gained back. It wasn't enough to keep them from feeling the pain of every citizen who believes the Government has no business telling folks who they can and cannot marry based on what the Bible says (and let's face it, you can find a passage in the Bible to support any position, including incest, rape, murder, and mob attacks) deciding they won't add their hard-earned money to the profits the Cathys use to make them moe hated or make their life more difficult.
The results of the boycott will be evident in the decreasing quarterly earnings the company reports. This match ain't hardly started.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)