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>“MoviePass and its executives went to great lengths to deny consumers access to the service they paid for while also failing to secure their personal informati
by diogenesjunior 5y ago
>“MoviePass and its executives went to great lengths to deny consumers access to the service they paid for while also failing to secure their personal information,”
As expected.
- 0xbadcafebee 5y agos/big tech/business/
- justapassenger 5y agoMoviePass was as much as much of a tech company as WeWork. Having a website doesn’t make you a tech company.
- vmception 5y agoThe VCs involved are what determine whether any company is a tech company It is how they can convince others to use a favorably high revenue multiple for selling any portions of the business to other people There, saved you some time
- reidjs 5y agoI sort of like the peopleware description of technology "anything that didn't exist when you were a kid is technology" In that sense movie theater subscriptions counts as technology. Is moviepass still dumb? Yes.
- balefrost 5y agoI guess that also means that Gritty is technology. I like to think that Gritty would approve of that.
- forgotmysn 5y agoim not sure id put MoviePass in the same category as FAANG
- mc32 5y agoIt’s different degrees of abuse. Moviepass committed fraud, and FAANG are not committing that kind of crime, they do engage in sketchy things. The whole ad business model is sketchy, getting people addicted to “binging” on content is questionable, Amz and its commingling issues, copying resellers, it’s terrible review system and well, social media siphoning personal data unscrupulously.... that’s not exactly stand up catagory.
- forgotmysn 5y agoim certainly not defending big tech, but as you say, they have different problems than MoviePass did.
- mc32 5y agoTrue, Our problem is they don’t think they have a problem when they clearly do.