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Let's see, Disney started out entertaining and ended up with serious broadcast TV stations, operating news departments publishing overwhelmingly fact-checked in
by fuzzfactor 3y ago
Let's see, Disney started out entertaining and ended up with serious broadcast TV stations, operating news departments publishing overwhelmingly fact-checked information, and their appeal to the consuming public has been growing at a healthy pace off and on for decades.
OTOH, Twitter was mainly a gossip rag a year or two ago, more amusing than entertaining, and it has gone downhill steadily since. Nothing like the kind of fact-checking you would need from a reliable information source, and the overall appeal just isn't the same any more. And that was people who loved Twitter.
- verdverm 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733456 (Choosing Minecraft over Disney, by a mother, 11 years ago) Disney has had many questionable content decisions over the years. I would not put them on a pedestal any more then Elon and Twitter
- slimebot80 3y agoI'd definitely put them on a pedestal above X. No comparison. No company is perfect, but what-about-isms trying to equate everything when someones preferred company is clearly deficient is just so lame.
- verdverm 3y agoI did not place them relatively, rather I stated that neither deserves any elevation. Are you assuming I have a preference for one of the companies? Certainly the parent of my comment has strong opinions about both People are talking about the bad things both companies do in these threads, where do you see the whataboutism? From the comment guidelines > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
- ofcourseyoudo 3y agoNot sure what your link has to do with any "questionable content decisions" Disney has made, but it's hilarious that her alternative is to let her child play Minecraft and watch YouTube instead of "Wizards of Waverly Place". Thank goodness she isn't exposed to the adult sarcasm of Disney tween content, just the wholesome world of YouTube!