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I appreciate this point but my take on this is that corporations are running scared of social media...paranoid of normies boycottong their brands. To me this is
by datavirtue 5y ago
I appreciate this point but my take on this is that corporations are running scared of social media...paranoid of normies boycottong their brands. To me this is good and is what was predicted as the next wave of progress by people like William Grieder. Citizens voting with their dollars.
Mother's boycotted GE into leaving the weapons manufacturing business in the 1980s. There is an explicit policy against any type of weapons manufacturing inside the company to this day.
I do agree with your premise that this is inappropriate since power is supposed to rest with elected representatives but I until we ban corporations from political contributions (any activity) then we will have to live with bullying corporations via social media.
- kbelder 5y ago>running scared of social media... citizens voting with their dollars. That's not an unreasonable idea, but the trouble I see is that those two concepts are surprisingly different. The din on social media is not reflective of the general citizenry. Think of almost any issue that the country is split fairly evenly on. How lopsided is the outrage on social media? Right now, it's a weapon wielded by a minority, sometimes for good, sometimes for bad.