Um. Strong disagree. Yeah it went about as badly as we all expected, but that doesn’t mean it’s good or okay.
In all honesty, reddittors should take down the servers as a form of protest. That’s always been a proper format of protest that’s the equivalent to picketing workers - disrupt production, bring it to a halt, and don’t go back to work until you get what you want. It doesn’t hurt anybody or any thing, and you show your power and value at the same time. It’s an inconvenient time for reddit’s pockets? Well maybe they should pull their heads out of their asses. Anything less is just a complaint, and in this day and age, when they have dollar signs for eyes, that don’t mean shit to this type of people.
If you wanna use might makes right as a founding logic for apathy and apologism, then cowards prepare assholes.
Reddit doing what they’re doing is the equivalent of forcefully removing picketers and you’re like, “it’s their business, they’ve always had the right.”
Because they always have had the legal right to do as they please with their platform.
This protest isn’t by the workers - it’s by unpaid volunteers and there is no law saying they have to listen to unpaid volunteers - and while we can organise there’s no - “unionization” persay - they aren’t paying us. So yes, they can and will bust through up the picket line, holding as many people hostage to their platform despite the moral standing of doing so.
Sure people don’t like that, and therefore they have no moral right. But business when they get greedy generally don’t care about moral rights, and will do everything on the correct side of the law to keep their power and userbase, and considering how eroded the antitrust and anticonsumer laws are right now, reddit has a lot of ability to do shit they shouldn’t really be allowed to do.
Even if legal suits do happen as a result of this, it will be a long drawn out process where Reddit will either Win, or declare bankruptcy. Then you can bet a large multinational tech company will buy it out. Google and Microsoft have been wanting to get into social media for some time now, and meta is still looking for a hot new thing it can hedge it’s bets and get more userbase - to the eyes of these companies the data and software Reddit possesses has inherent value even as the dwindling userbase, especially because Reddit aren’t really deleting data from old accounts. Hell current data would be a great data set to train AIs on and therefore big AI companies would love the opportunity to own said data. I could totally see a company buy it up, shut it down and then use the data to their own ends.
Also taking down the servers, while I completely agree with that in this case - and if 4chan were on board it probably would’ve happened - though I doubt it could be sustained long term, maybe a few months at absolute best, a few hours at worst. Doing so via the means we have available does present a legal concern not many are willing to cross, especially considering the implications of getting caught, most people are into peaceful protests, for this sort of thing not ouright trying to wreck shit - going to prison over a gripe with a social media site seems like a really dumb thing to ruin your life for.
Um. Strong disagree. Yeah it went about as badly as we all expected, but that doesn’t mean it’s good or okay.
In all honesty, reddittors should take down the servers as a form of protest. That’s always been a proper format of protest that’s the equivalent to picketing workers - disrupt production, bring it to a halt, and don’t go back to work until you get what you want. It doesn’t hurt anybody or any thing, and you show your power and value at the same time. It’s an inconvenient time for reddit’s pockets? Well maybe they should pull their heads out of their asses. Anything less is just a complaint, and in this day and age, when they have dollar signs for eyes, that don’t mean shit to this type of people.
If you wanna use might makes right as a founding logic for apathy and apologism, then cowards prepare assholes.
Reddit doing what they’re doing is the equivalent of forcefully removing picketers and you’re like, “it’s their business, they’ve always had the right.”
Because they always have had the legal right to do as they please with their platform.
This protest isn’t by the workers - it’s by unpaid volunteers and there is no law saying they have to listen to unpaid volunteers - and while we can organise there’s no - “unionization” persay - they aren’t paying us. So yes, they can and will bust through up the picket line, holding as many people hostage to their platform despite the moral standing of doing so.
Sure people don’t like that, and therefore they have no moral right. But business when they get greedy generally don’t care about moral rights, and will do everything on the correct side of the law to keep their power and userbase, and considering how eroded the antitrust and anticonsumer laws are right now, reddit has a lot of ability to do shit they shouldn’t really be allowed to do.
Even if legal suits do happen as a result of this, it will be a long drawn out process where Reddit will either Win, or declare bankruptcy. Then you can bet a large multinational tech company will buy it out. Google and Microsoft have been wanting to get into social media for some time now, and meta is still looking for a hot new thing it can hedge it’s bets and get more userbase - to the eyes of these companies the data and software Reddit possesses has inherent value even as the dwindling userbase, especially because Reddit aren’t really deleting data from old accounts. Hell current data would be a great data set to train AIs on and therefore big AI companies would love the opportunity to own said data. I could totally see a company buy it up, shut it down and then use the data to their own ends.
Also taking down the servers, while I completely agree with that in this case - and if 4chan were on board it probably would’ve happened - though I doubt it could be sustained long term, maybe a few months at absolute best, a few hours at worst. Doing so via the means we have available does present a legal concern not many are willing to cross, especially considering the implications of getting caught, most people are into peaceful protests, for this sort of thing not ouright trying to wreck shit - going to prison over a gripe with a social media site seems like a really dumb thing to ruin your life for.