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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on November 12, 2016, 02:04:48 PM

Title: Lego, let it go!
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 12, 2016, 02:04:48 PM

Not the biggest fan of boycotts and while I find the Mail often repulsive, unconvinced that this is constructive


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lego-ends-advertising-daily-mail-stop-funding-hate-campaign-a7413361.html

Title: Re: Lego, let it go!
Post by: Anchorman on November 12, 2016, 02:27:09 PM

Another brick off the wall?

Title: Re: Lego, let it go!
Post by: Hope on November 12, 2016, 04:49:53 PM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37962425

Do folk here agree that companies should stop using media and other channels which portray migrants in a negative light to publicise and advertise their wares?

Title: Re: Lego, let it go!
Post by: Brownie on November 12, 2016, 05:09:52 PM

Much as I dislike the "Daily Hate Mail", this isn't an easy one for many of us, Hopem because it has a whiff of censorship and none of us want that!

However, the article quotes thus: 
Lego told the BBC it spends "a lot of time listening to what children have to say. And when parents and grandparents take the time to let us know how they feel, we always listen just as carefully."

I believe that Lego have made a well thought out decision and agree in principle.