A couple of yeas ago I expressed concern about social media and how it might ultimately impact the debate on gun control. As I said then many traditional news outlets may support gun control, but still offer at least some information from gun rights advocates. However, social media presents often a very one-sided, limited and often untrue representation of an issue. Social media also moves very rapidly and can place a lot of pressure on individuals, politicians and corporations.
We now see companies like Delta Airlines, Enterprise Car rental. Symantec (Norton), First National of Omaha and Chubb insurance severing ties with the NRA over threats of boycotts being pushed on social media @boycottnra.
Social media often present only a one-sided misinformed caricature of gun owners, but these campaigns tend to carry a lot of power and only add to the ranks of the “useful idiots”.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/02/23/boycottnra-enterprise-omaha-bank-end-gun-lobby-deals-as-boycott-movement-gains-steam/?utm_term=.eb145a3d91c9
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/23/17044756/symantec-norton-nra-discount
https://www.ajc.com/business/delta-ending-discount-for-nra-members/co2jAVFgLpvTOlP7eYOHwM/
We now see companies like Delta Airlines, Enterprise Car rental. Symantec (Norton), First National of Omaha and Chubb insurance severing ties with the NRA over threats of boycotts being pushed on social media @boycottnra.
Social media often present only a one-sided misinformed caricature of gun owners, but these campaigns tend to carry a lot of power and only add to the ranks of the “useful idiots”.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/02/23/boycottnra-enterprise-omaha-bank-end-gun-lobby-deals-as-boycott-movement-gains-steam/?utm_term=.eb145a3d91c9
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/23/17044756/symantec-norton-nra-discount
https://www.ajc.com/business/delta-ending-discount-for-nra-members/co2jAVFgLpvTOlP7eYOHwM/
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