[sneak]

> Another obstacle comes from companies like Facebook and Google, which banned the sale and advertising of N95 masks in an effort to thwart profiteers from diverting vital medical gear needed by frontline medical workers.

In their desire to wield censorship to avoid bad PR, these companies are actually hindering some of the people doing the best work (and taking on their own financial risk!) to help. This is despicable.

Why are large corporations so cowardly?

[XorNot]

Why do people keep asking this question when pretty obviously big corporations have big PR and marketing departments that when they tell you you're going to lose a lot of money from consumer disengagement and are looking at a senate investigation, so what corporations are literally built to only do and take the most profitable option?

This isn't a mystery. Public pressure doesn't work because corporations "feel bad".

[sneak]

Public pressure to avoid being seen as profiting from opportunists seems to work.