“The brazen hypocrisy staggers the mind. Disney, which commands a market cap larger than the GDP of many nations, can’t find the courage to even wait for court challenges? Meta, which regularly boasts its power to connect billions, suddenly can’t muster the strength to defend its own policies and users? These aren’t businesses making tough choices – they’re paper empires run by moral cowards—simpering, whimpering, and weak.”
Ah the ol’ “you can’t participate in a society you gave criticisms about”.
“Don’t like capitalism? Stop buying things.”
“Hate fossil fuels? Don’t use transportation or electricity which relies on it.”
“Hate slavery? Manufacture your own clothes.”
“Don’t like the country? Move away.”
Even just social media is a sort of must today. It isn’t, not really, but neither is a car or buying things if you really get down to it.
But for like a teenager, social media is pretty much a must. We can all pretend it isn’t and how brave it is to be against the mainstream and do your own thing but you might feel a twinge of regret 20 years down the line when you have little to no relationships.
It’s easier to use the things, complain about them, organise and change them, then it is to change them via expecting everyone to make the same personal choices. There’s clearly something worthy or interesting about the systems. So let’s just try to take out/regulate whatever makes them shit.