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U.S. Companies Are Pandering to the Chinese Communist Party
It may end up costing them more than they think.
“As of today, we’re saying goodbye to Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok until these platforms can provide a safer environment for their users,” the astonishing marketing email read. “The serious effects of social media on mental health are being ignored by these platforms.”
Among the many Christmas shopping emails, solicitations and sales notices, this email from the makers of Lush Bath Bombs stood out like a sore thumb.
At a time when more and more companies are clamoring more and more loudly for attention on social media, chasing that viral marketing rainbow, a successful company like Lush going in the opposite direction is worth noting.
“Character,” as Heraclitus observed two thousand years ago, “is destiny.”
Corporations have perverted that truism, as corporations often do. “Company Culture is Destiny,” motivational posters in training centers aren’t as common as others, but they do exist.
Most large corporations barely gave lip service to the idea of being “good” and didn’t give a discernible fig about “community stakeholders” until about five minutes ago. Suddenly, making the world a better place, saving the planet, ending racism, and fighting injustice is…