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She was trying to get a faculty member at a local university fired for saying something offensive on Twitter. The thing with situations like this is that it's
by goatinaboat 6y ago
She was trying to get a faculty member at a local university fired for saying something offensive on Twitter.
The thing with situations like this is that it's not that the crowd is reporting that a crime has been committed. It doesn't even matter what was said, it's just that thousands of people are threatening that they will boycott their product. Companies and organisations just need to realise that those people were never their customers anyway and will have forgotten about it tomorrow. A Twitter campaign to get an employee fired should be treated as no more than a DDoS attack and mitigated the same way.
- blub 6y agoI saw a large thread on a subreddit about music asking others to boycott a specific store because the CEO made a campaign donation to Trump. Several people sounded like they were actual customers... But the kicker is that in the end it turned out that he didn't even make the donation.
- bradlys 6y agoI see things like this all the time on Facebook. It’s quite annoying. One that was circulating was for boycotting anything Peter Thiel had significant involvement in because he is a major donor to Trump. Not much of a surprise but Theil is either a board member or has invested in many companies... So, the list was large and purely virtue signaling. It had other major donors on it too. I don’t know if this cancel culture really works for large companies. Most companies have taken money or have board members or high level employees that are on opposing sides of the political spectrum. (With some of both sides who have donated heavily to political campaigns...)