You are supporting this:
Alarmist? Over reacting? Don't think you're actually supporting this by going to this site?
Kos is taking cash to support this right now.
Please read Chico David RN's brilliant diary.
This is propaganda by an industry group who has a vested interest in keeping plastic bags cheap to use, and expensive to clean up- "Sponsored by the Progressive Bag Affiliates of the American Chemistry Council and The California Film Extruders and Converters Association"
Thank you, Kos, for taking money to spread propaganda, harm our environment, contribute to global warming, skew the debate, and obfuscate rather than illuminate.
Your decision to allow this Ad to remian on the site (only in California, I believe) is a disgrace to the intelligence of this community.
More after the fold.
Here is another brilliant diary on the subject, and my original post on the subject.
I won't put up too much on this subject here, please read those other entries and you'll be very well informed.
Let me say here a word about how ads work on the site.
As I understand it, Kos has a third party agreement with an Ad vendor and doesn't have direct control over which ads get posted on the site. It is the Liberal Blog Ad Network.
Apparently, if Kos finds an ad objectionable, he has to go through these guys to try to get it taken down.
But Kos has said nothing on this. He needs to do that. I appreciate that he may not have full control over what ads get displayed, so maybe he should think about having an agreement that allows him to flag an ad he finds objectionable so that it doesn't get displayed on this site.
At the very least, Kos, you need to say something. Silence is not helpful. I know you likely have a lot of things going on and don't want to deal with this, but how long should we allow propaganda to go on unfettered on this site? I shouldn't have to come here and see that bullshit.
Please rec this diary and get the discussion going. If not, I suppose we'll just let the propaganda continue and look forward to despoiling our environment, hastening global warming, continuing irrational economic policies, and wasting resources.
And to think, we can look back and remember that our complacency started it all!
Update [2008-8-4 17:28:13 by bollucks]: I am an asshole for writing this post, according to the comments. And if it causes at least one of you to bring a canvas bag with you to the store, then I'm glad an egotistical asshole who's so consumed with himself that he wants to try to save the environment and some animals he'll never see.