[wlaggert]

In terms of stock price nothing is gained, except when pandering to potential ad clickers like Google (apparently conservatives do not click on ads ...).

But the thousands of middle managers with non-technical degrees need to justify their existence. They always need to check some bullet points in their performance evaluations.

This is why you see HR moving to a "new" online HR platform every year and inventing nonsense like 360 degree reviews.

They can claim that they have "done" something!

Same here: This ban will have been discussed for at least a week, so another week is secure for their performance evaluations.

Another benefit of the culture wars is that they can be used to suppress the productive parts of the population. Especially technical people are intimidated easily (not in online comments but in real life), so if the parasites establish a sufficient number of taboos and enforce them, they control the actual workers.

Taboos have been a ruling class tool since the dawn of time.