Quote:Spoilsport wrote:And as a note, even if 2 and 3 are related, it could be that it was only a small note in a whole series of notes of an advertising campaign that was no longer making sense. Skyfire, you can still decide to not buy their stuff, but I don't think it's entirely kosher to claim that they've decided to align with the "Communist Thought Police". As noted, it's quite likely that the campaign no longer made sense, either in terms of return on investment, or just that they've made the choice to go with other, less incendiary venues.
So I'm going to spell this out, let me know if I got anything wrong:
1) Lego had a limited-run advertising deal with the Daily Mail paper
2) A Lego customer expressed their views to the folks at Lego in a letter (in short "I like you better than them, do you like me better than them?")
3) Lego has chosen to cancel the limited-run advertising (or it expired, I haven't seen the answer as to which anywhere), which may or may not have anything to do with the second item
4) outrage over free speech and association, somehow, because someone else has it, too
Did I miss anything?
In other words, you have the right to not buy LEGO products, but LEGO also has the right to not advertise with a firm that they find distasteful. In fact, I'd hope that they'd see you proclaiming it, and do a John Scalzi: "Hey, good luck, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out!"
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