BuzzFeed cancels $1.3 million in Trump ads

In April, the Republican National Committee signed an agreement with BuzzFeed to spend a significant amount on political advertisements slated to run during the Fall election cycle. As you know, we accept advertisements from both republican and democratic candidates and we were pleased to accept this advertising order from the RNC.

Since signing this advertising deal, Donald Trump, as you know, has become the presumptive nominee of his party. The tone and substance of his campaign are unique in the history of modern US politics. Trump advocates banning Muslims from traveling to the United States, he’s threatened to limit the free press, and made offensive statements toward women, immigrants, descendants of immigrants, and foreign nationals.

Earlier today Buzzfeed informed the RNC that we would not accept Trump for President ads and that we would be terminating our agreement with them. The Trump campaign is directly opposed to the freedoms of our employees in the United States and around the world and in some cases, such as his proposed ban on international travel for Muslims, would make it impossible for our employees to do their jobs.

I.B. Fine wrote:Let's simplify it a bit. Say Trump goes into a bakery in the local barrio and asks them to decorate a cake for him that says 'Build the Wall!' and they say 'No thanks, you'll need to go somewhere  else'
Personally I think that's perfectly reasonable, however there is a bakery in Oregon (I think) that tried pretty much the same thing, but over a wedding cake and is now out of business and thousands in debt from a law suit.
Where do you draw the line between free speech and being over the line butt hurt, just those you agree with?

Rocinante wrote:Actually it's nothing like the cake. Homosexuals are a protected class. Bigots are not.

LooseGoose wrote:

Rocinante wrote:Actually it's nothing like the cake. Homosexuals are a protected class. Bigots are not.

So you see this as a bigot issue, not a speech issue?

Rocinante wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:

So you see this as a bigot issue, not a speech issue?

Same thing in this case.

LooseGoose wrote:

Rocinante wrote:

Same thing in this case.

That can't be true. If it's a speech issue it's protected.

Rocinante wrote:Why is this issue so hard for some people to understand?

Turtleneck wrote:I do not even remember when Buzzfeed snuck into the picture as legit media.

As somebody said, I thought they were mostly into curating lists of the word's craziest cats and best grocery stores.