• PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The most direct and effective strategy to inspire reform in their practices is to stop using of their platforms.

    The whole “the free market could fix it” is just neoliberal bullshit. The most hated companies in the world continue to bring in record profits and its not because people prefer their chocolate is harvested by child slaves.

    They’re fully aware that it never works, but they just keep suggesting it over and over again, growing richer with successive failure, all the while blaming consumers for not preventing them doing sleazy, greedy things.

    The actual most direct and effective strategy is regulations. That’s why they hate them and why there are so many of them in politics.

    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Thank you. I’m tired of hearing “it’s the consumer’s responsability” when we have governments and various regulatory bodies for this exact reason