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Any person can ask others to change their behavior. And if they get the attention of the company, the company may change its behaviors. Whether out of sympath
by VikingCoder 8y ago
Any person can ask others to change their behavior.
And if they get the attention of the company, the company may change its behaviors.
Whether out of sympathy or self-interest is kind of immaterial.
As users, we'd like the companies to change their behavior.
Companies rely on users' good will. Once they depend on users for revenue, they need to act to a certain degree as though they care about those users. Or users may leave. These are the consequences.
- krageon 8y agoThey don't rely on goodwill at all. Companies rely on you spending money. The odds of any one person having an attention span long enough to hold a grudge that might have an impact on their wallet are so vanishingly small that they really only need to care about milking everyone for all they are worth. I prefer this explanation, because you can see that it meshes very well with what happens in practice.
- VikingCoder 8y ago> They don't rely on goodwill at all. Wow, of course they do. > The odds of any one person having an attention span long enough to hold a grudge So... that's why people draw attention to issues like this. To try to organize users just enough to encourage a company to change its behavior. Or, failing that, to get government to lean on companies to get them to change their behavior. > I prefer this explanation, because you can see that it meshes very well with what happens in practice. Companies have been successfully boycotted before. Advertisers leave when consumers get mad enough. Maybe not all of them. But at some point, the platform does actually make some changes, sometimes.