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> Protesting against these things [..] without sacrificing your entire livelihood If you invest your time and money into say, an iPhone application, you're hea
by bnegreve 13y ago
> Protesting against these things [..] without sacrificing your entire livelihood
If you invest your time and money into say, an iPhone application, you're heavily supporting the Apple store.
Once you've done that, the fact that you've expressed your disagreement with Apple policies on online forums is more or less irrelevant.
Look at Facebook: there is a rather large number of people complaining about their privacy policies, yet they keep making them worst every year. That's because people complain, but don't quit.
- fauigerzigerk 13y agoI don't have an app in the App Store (partly for these reasons) and I have actually cancelled my Facebook account in protest. I can afford to do that. But what I'm saying is that depending on your field of work, you may not have much of a choice other than to support the dominant players in the industry. No one should feel under any moral obligation to forego 50% of their income every time NastBigCorp X does something nasty. It's useful to protest and still keep doing what you do. Maybe down the road there's an opportunity to hurt them without hurting yourself even more. Protesting shows there is a desire for something different.
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