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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8078159">I am a voter, not a policy maker. So I have ideas that if I had a chance to vote on them, I would be in favor of. But I also understand this is complex and I am probably the last person who should be offering policy ideas. I think what I would like to see number one is elimination of corporate lobbying. Beyond that, I would like there to be protections for employees in place so people can't be punished by their employer for things like taking political positions on facebook that the company doesn't want them to have. But we are normalizing companies being a part of the political and moral conversation. That feels good when they are doing things that support issues you believe in. When they don't do that, and start thwarting issues you believe in, I promise you it is going to hurt, and it is definitely going to happen eventually. Look, I do want companies to be held to account if they are engaged in behavior that is harming the country in some way. I mean I don't want supply trucks that bring food to grocery stores putting dangerous chemicals in the same shipments as flour and fruit. In terms of media content, I am a lot less interested in policing that. What do you want them to do here? It is an old book. It comes from a different era, and the first edition was published by a different company originally. Do you want them to stop publishing it? I've already given my reasons for why I think this is a bad idea. I don't see value in repeating what I've already stated. If you disagree, fair enough. A) doing the wrong thing can also help you make money. And corporations are not good judges of right and wrong. They are good judges of profitable and not profitable. B) Sure individuals in companies shouldn't do things they morally object to. But their purpose in the company is to help it make money. I know a few people who have made tough decisions working for a company, in order to do the right thing. I know a lot more who exploit the morality of their customers to maximize profits and punish the competition. I think you are playing with fire when you mix moral crusades with corporate power. Public sentiment is not always in line with what is morally right. Yes they can try to be less alienating, but a lot of this discussion is people disagreeing over what is alienating. I do think they should produce good content. I am reluctant to equate moral content with good content though. Again, I think this gets into the issue of mistaking content for message. I don't. I think most corporations are doing it cynically. I don't know why you would take my skepticism of cooperate power as evidence that I don't take issues seriously. Obviously I disagree with a lot of your assumptions about these issues. I think we are both probably on the left side of the political spectrum. But there are a lot of philosophical assumptions about race, identity, and media that we clearly don't share. I am not saying this to invite further political debate. I just want to be clear because it seems like you might equate 'taking these issues seriously' with agreeing with those set of assumptions.</blockquote>

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