01-22-2025, 04:35 PM
From the constructive thread:
Quote:Not to be too "no ethical consumption under capitalism" about it either, but while Musk's impact is very overt and recent for much of the west and especilly the US, we don't really seem to share the same passionate resistance to other, similarly problematic, tech giants and business owners.
Twitter is uniquely pervasive, especially when it comes to the kind of news shared here, but there aren't broad calls for the site-wide banning of Meta services, or Youtube videos because it's the "ethically right thing to do".
It's probably just whataboutism, but the level of resistance to Twitter in particular feels more reflective of people's (entirely fair) hatred for Musk himself rather than the ethical implications of embedding links to a platform he owns