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can this principled stand outlast the public increasingly short memory?
by volune 12y ago
can this principled stand outlast the public increasingly short memory?
- pawn 12y agomagic 8-ball says...don't count on it
- thescrewdriver 12y agoThese "principled stands" seem very selective and subjective. It looks a lot like the online version of mob justice.
- arrrg 12y agoWhat do you even mean by that? Statements like that make no sense at all to me. Do you not believe that those who organise this are principled? Why exactly? Also, you see exactly how powerless they are. Mobs tend to have power through violence. That’s just not to be found here. It’s just some people not using the product and being open about their dissatisfaction … Really, this line of argument confuses the hell out of me.
- thescrewdriver 12y agoPerhaps I should clarify... It's almost certain that you could find fault with someone involved with virtually any major organization, or their business practices if you look long and hard enough. Singling out one organization among hundreds of thousands of others in the world seems completely arbitrary. In terms of the mob justice reference, it's largely to do with the mob anger that gets whipped up in forums such as this one. It may not be physical violence, but it does seek to damage the "target" economically.
- llamataboot 12y agoWhat exactly does an organized boycott have in common with "mob justice"? They seem like polar opposites to me.
- thescrewdriver 12y agoA large group of people getting whipped into a righteous frenzy to punish a "target" for some perceived wrongdoing?
- SmokeyHamster 12y agoMobs rape and pillage. They don't organize peaceful boycotts in protest of government surveillance.
- gtaylor 12y agoProbably not, but surveillance is being subjected to "death from a thousand papercuts". While we probably won't ever put the cat back into the bag, these smaller protests add up to a greater cumulative sum, reminding politicians that there are at least some kind of consequences to their actions. It isn't the large-scale surveillance rollback we are looking for, but it's the next best thing.