Legal Commentary

One Cheer for McDonalds

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

I am no great fan of McDonalds — I don’t think I’ve been inside one more than twice in the last decade — but I think they deserve praise for this letter responding to the threat that has now matured as this boycott campaign.

(found via Good as You, AFA will try to tarnish Golden Arches)

Note that I support the right of people to organize boycotts against companies whose policies they don’t like, indeed celebrate it as a valued form of citizen activism. And I also support the right of the rest of us to make fun of misguided boycotts.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on July 03, 2008 (boomark / email).