Musk is in regular contact with Putin, who makes suggestions about where Star link be turned off, or denied access to.
Bezos prevented the Washington Post from endorsing Kamala Harris.
Netflix is helping Israel dehumanize and erase Palestine and Palestinians.
A normal day in the US of A.
That's freedom fellow Americans
CANCEL CULTURE
But have you considered that it's working for them, now?
Remember... There is not a single corporation that gives a shit about you beyond your LTV (lifetime value) as a paying customer. "Pride week" and "Palestinian stories" type things are just mechanisms to get your money.
If they are told they make more money harming you, CEOs literally have a legal responsibility to choose that option. And right after they do, they will have an amazing dinner while laughing at how stupid you are and then sleep more peacefully than you have on the single best day of your entire life.
If they are told they make more money harming you, CEOs literally have a legal responsibility to choose that option.
No they fucking don't.
They choose to do so out of greediness the vast majority of the time, but it isn't a legal obligation.
You are actually not wrong but if they dont obey BoD, it is the shed.
Bigger question here if this "simplification" is a valid tactic to communicate the message.
Theoretically BoD could sue the CEO, but i dont think that ever happened in this context... Only in cases of fraud, ie stealing company assets
Something similar has happened. Look up Dodge vs. Ford Motor Co where the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that a ceo must operate in the interest of the shareholders not in the interests of the business and it's employees.
Yes they actually do. Look up Dodge v. Ford Motor Company. A business must be run in the interests of the shareholders, not the public, not the employees, not even the business itself.
Is it morally right? Fuck no. Is it the law? Unfortunately yes.
Grobow v. Perot, 539 A.2d 180 (Del. 1988).
Directors in a business should:
Fair point, I was unaware of this case.
And let’s not forget that most significant forms of “harm” are illegal in the first place. The comment above you makes it sound like any minute now, Nabisco might decide it’s more profitable for them to roll out to your house and kill you.
I mean.... if something is illegal but the penalties are low or enforcement nonexistent then it's more like a recommendation. Fines become a "cost of doing business".
Has anyone ever been under the illusion orherwise? I’ve never seen anyone who thought corporations cared about them. And people don’t care about corporations either. They care about getting the shit they want at the price they want and will sleep very soundly if some corporation goes out of business.
Unfortunately I've seen quite a few people argue that companies are kept honest by the market and as such they're trustworthy.
Libertarians writing Invisible Hand fan fiction.
Quite a few? Wow! I would say that’s very naive but it would have to have an ounce of logic to even be evaluated on that scale.
a lot of people have a hard time to believe that facebook, google, microsoft, etc cannot be trusted, or even that they don't have good intentions (anymore?)
Seems you live in a bubble friend.
One of the most popular kids toys are miniature brand name products that the parents buy for them...
people by M&M's branded leather jackets for $300 and walk around as human billboards willingly...
people cover their cars with bumper stickers and get tattoos with logos showing their preferences between competing local coffee shops....
Goop, celebrity-fronted baby brands, etc are "lifestyle brands" where people purchase an identity and defend it against others...
Sports teams are corporations that people literally have bloody fist fights over...
Target is selling a Halloween costume and kids sized shopping carts and checkout stands and their parents are buying them... For money
What in the sweet sticky god damn FUCK are you talking about "was anyone under that illusion"?
Dude, Donald trump is a fucking corporation that elderly people eating cat food donate their pension checks to...
You seem to be delusional if you see NONE of that.
Let me introduce you to gamers and valve.
and then sleep more peacefully than you have on the single best day of your entire life
Seriously doubt that. Those kinds of people don't sleep well.
From the article:
The films removed from Netflix include "3 Logical Exits"; "3000 Nights"; "A Drowning Man"; "A Man Returned"; "A World Not Ours"; "Ave Maria"; "Bonboné"; "Children of Shatila"; "Chronicle of a Disappearance"; "Condom Lead"; "Divine Intervention"; "Frontiers of Dreams and Fears"; "Ghost Hunting"; "Giraffada"; "Habibi"; "In Vitro"; "Like Twenty Impossibles"; "Maradona’s Legs"; "Mars at Sunrise"; "Omar"; "Salt of this Sea"; "Samouni Road"; "The Crossing"; and "Xenos"
Here is a lovely Federated [PeerTube] collection of films and documentaries about Palestine: https://tube.todon.eu/c/palestine.documentaries/videos?s=1
Woah some of those documentaries make my blood boil
As they should.
Thank ^_^
There is no israel lobby within US companies.
This is just normal moderation to protect the vulnerable
How so?
That was sarcasm
See, that’s what I thought.
I need to spend less time on Israeli news sites and Reddit, but the whole point of visiting those is to see what the others think, but if you put yourself in an echo chamber you only hear the same things and I’m trying to avoid that.
I’ve just seen too many opinions exactly like that lately
Literally just ereasing a culture to make room for the new one.
Dang, I wish there were a term for that...
Since this is the first time in human history it's every happened, we will have to wait to see what word or phrase becomes standard to use. Because if it had happened before, we'd have a definition for it.
And it would probably be super illegal beyond being immoral. Like international communities would all agree that anyone committing such acts would be evil and the good nations of the world would act immediately to defend the victims and stop any government or army from continuing.
At least if it ever happens again we will know better.
I had never even heard of them having this content.
I gave Netflix a chance because of all the Palestinian content (I'm not even shitting) after being unsubbed for over a year since their underhanded tactics on family sharing, but I guess it's time to cancel again.
I can't call that surprising. This is the same Netflix that almost immediately took down the episode of Hasan Minaj's show criticizing Saudi Arabia because the Saudis told them to.
Common netflix L, sail the high seas.
Welcome to the digital age.
I couldn't figure it out from the bit of the article i could see before the pay wall, but is it stated who they license the content from?
Many times these things are licensed in bundles (especially likely if they all showed up on the service at the same time) and they may not have been able to repurchase the license. It wouldn't surprise me if alot of that content is in flux with all the creators/businesses being killed/destroyed.
Is it possible they just decided to nix all that content during the moment in history it's most likely to be viewed outside of its previously very small audience? Sure. It just feels like there's probably something else going on here.
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