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>> suite of lawsuits are piling up against big corporations as consumers pursue massive settlements over household products linked to cancer. run a weedkiller and johnson & johnson baby powder urges among some of the rents that have lost billion-dollar judgments incorporated in the nonprofit group, the american council on science and health, his warning that attorneys are using scare tactics and bogus flames in the name of consumer activism. federal prosecutors recently charge one virginia lawyer was involved in a round of settlement with trying to extort a can i call company for $200 million....

Whatever lying around the bank to cancel their membership. these things do not last. they thought it was going to happen with, you know, the nfl. didn't happen. you know, kaepernick is still not playing. police brutality is still an issue in the black community, and even though the viewership in the nfl, the ratings fell, it was not necessarily a shock because it was falling prior to the boycott of the nfl. so, you know, people are outraged as long as the news is outraged. >> what do you make of sort of like the brand shaming that is taking place? you had the joaquin castro thing as well that ...

If they paid extra, faster to them, but harder to get for others. what if a comcast, for instance, under the guise of network management said you weren't allowed to access these other news sites that comcast didn't have as part of nbc? these things on the margins net neutrality, without strong government rules telecom companies might do. they say they don't want to reason. a lot of reason they might not. >> consumer activity here is one of those that may end up being the regulatory check. right? consumer activism, especially when it comes to internet access. >> one of the things the telecom co...

Could become account beginning of a trump fueled era of consumer activism where they have real consequences of companies accused of supporting is trump. the posh sushi restaurant coy announced its shutting down i location at the trump so ho hotel in new york a victim of p's increasingly toxic brand. the council told the website grub street obviously since the election, business has gone down. but the most visible target of these boy kotz remains first daughter ivanka trump. the anti-trump site grab your wallet op org lists the top companies to boycott for nine of the top ten, the offending act...

Rock, steph curry. how do you think that's going to play out for these successful companies that have these high-profile relationships that may not agree with them getting into politics? >> yeah. i think these companies are going to have to learn pretty quickly that it is not the case that having a great relationship with this president is necessarily great for business. for som companies that may be the case. for others depending on the branding it won't be. consumer activism is back and it's here to stay. this is not a new thing. civil rights movement, anti-apartheid movements have long used...