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Shouldn't a business to be politically neutral? I am not here to debate whether or not we should support a certain political notion here but I am getting tired of businesses, particularly large corporations taking a political stance and forcing a political issue onto us. I do understand they are private businesses and have the right to sell certain products but their purely politically motivated decisions are changing the way we live.
Shouldn't that be considered political discrimination? For example, eBay and Amazon's decision not to sell any firearm related items or the confederation flags, Walmart and Apple not to sell confederation flags, airlines banning any trophy hunting items, Apple not to sell any porn related apps, etc. etc. etc. What's the difference between these and those shops refusing to make gay wedding cakes or to carry gay themed movies?
Personally, I'd think as long as they are legal, particularly for those providing a platform for Internet sellers, such as eBay, Amazon and Apple, they should not discriminate like this or at least the decision shall not be political.
Thoughts?
Last edited by lifeexplorer; 08-05-2015 at 09:17 AM..
Personally I think business should stay political neutral. As it's not against the law, the business should not push certain political agenda onto its consumers; otherwise, we will soon live in a way the big corporations want us to.
Shouldn't a business to be politically neutral? I am not here to debate whether or not we should support a certain political notion here but I am getting tired of businesses, particularly large corporations taking a political stance and forcing a political issue onto us. I do understand they are private businesses and have the right to sell certain products but their purely politically motivated decisions are changing the way we live.
Shouldn't that be considered political discrimination? For example, eBay and Amazon's decision not to sell any firearm related items or the confederation flags, Walmart and Apple not to sell confederation flags, airlines banning any trophy hunting items, Apple not to sell any porn related apps, etc. etc. etc. What's the difference between these and those shops refusing to make gay wedding cakes or to carry gay themed movies?
Personally, I'd think as long as they are legal, particularly for those providing a platform for Internet sellers, such as eBay, Amazon and Apple, they should not discriminate like this or at least the decision shall not be political.
It is smart for a business to stay neutral, any time they make a political message, they risk that message doing damage to their business.
Agreed. I don't want to know what a company's politics are. I don't care what corporations (or more to the point their boards and C-suite suits) think about politics. Don't care about their views. Don't want to know. Just shut up and take my money.
Businesses should be able to hire and fire who they want, sell or not sell and legal product they want or serve or not serve who they want.
Obviously there are exceptions such as selling safe products and essential services accessible to all, but for the most part, a business owner should be able to control his/her business.
You would have to also forbid corporations from making political donations as well....I don't see that ever happening.
Let's just get rid of political contributions 100%. If you want to run for office, you must get X number of signatures (which would vary depending upon office and number of constituents) and the government give you a set amount of money for political materials and such.
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