As is pointed out in this piece, @amazon is the last large advertiser on Breitbart, supporting their content after nearly every other brand abandoned them.
This is emblematic of their history of ignoring moderation and responsibility in favor of profits.
The reason that @amazon can ignore extremism is because they have a monopoly.
With it, they have no need to stop selling, as they have in the past, Nazi merchandise, or stop extremists from selling prepper kits. To them, it’s all cash.
Not only do they allow conspiracy theorists and Boogaloo members to monetize, but they profit from it. Massively.
This explains what we always thought was true about @Facebook. They have consistently make special commutations for outlets like Breitbart, The Daily Wire and InfoWars despite their breaches of the Terms of Service.
We have been pushing @facebook to simply enforce their own rules for years, as have others, and have consistently found that they were unwilling to do even the bare minimum.
Politics should be separated from moderation decisions and rules should be enforced equally. They’re not.
This, from an employee who left @facebook because of its damaging policy decisions, gets it right.
No one is asking Facebook to throw people off their platform based on their ideology, they are simply asking the company to enforce their terms. It isn’t happening.
.@Facebook has now allowed rumors to spread on their platforms that have touched off a genocide and, likely soon, yet another.
@youtube has allowed QAnon and the anti-vaccine movement to grow from fringe theories to massive movements.
And now, after Parler (along with Facebook) enabled militia groups to literally plan the overthrow of the US government and almost succeed, @SkySilkCloud is allowing it back online using their servers.
.@Verizon, one of Fox’s biggest advertisers, made a strong statement in support of racial justice, but they hand Fox millions to lie about George Floyd and defend white supremacists.
.@gm and @cadillac, major sponsors of Fox News, gave $10 million to fund racial justice. Today, they continue to sponsor Fox shows which say Black Lives Matter has torn the fabric of our country.