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The boycott, more than anything internal to those companies (like reduced expending as an experiment during the pandemics), were a message instead of a direct h
by caiobegotti 6y ago
The boycott, more than anything internal to those companies (like reduced expending as an experiment during the pandemics), were a message instead of a direct hit at Facebook. Hubris can be a dangerous toy to play with and I hope for their best that folks at Facebook paid attention to this boycott and won't simply go "lalala you can't hurt us lalala".
- bezmenov 6y agoYes, let’s hope partisan media-backed extortion campaigns get a foothold...
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoFacebook's paid attention pretty publicly, openly stating their commitment to opposing hate speech promising to hire an executive-level person in charge of civil rights. Some groups have complained that Facebook won't adopt their preferred speech codes, but I largely think it's a good thing that Facebook won't change its policies to prohibit unpopular speech.
- Threeve303 6y agoIf anything the boycott may have given the ...interests of those the boycott was supposedly about more leverage over Facebook, since they provided the remaining ad revenue.