What do you think about some people boycotting Instagram, twitter, etc. (details in post)

I don’t use any of them now so no problem.

Easy enough^

Twitter’s been trash for a long time. Long overdue.

I don’t use Twitter, but I do use FB. I am not boycotting it but I support whatever people choose to do for themselves. It’s their own personal choice, like boycotting anything else. I can understand totally why people are disgusted with Zuck, Musk and the rest.

I don’t use any of them so I won’t be boycotting anything. As for what I think about those that want to boycott them, I say have at it. The ban on TikTok had nothing to do with trying to silence people. It had to do with China data mining all the users on it. It was identified to be a security issue years ago. If you are a person that believes that is hunky-dory then I guess you deserve TikTok.

It should be noted that Biden banned TikTok and on Day 1 Trump put a pause on that ban and is working to resolve the issue. It should also be noted, though, that Biden didn’t do this all himself. A lot of the groundwork for this was set when Bush II was in office as part of the NSA PRISM program.

The idea of banning social media is completely loony to me. It is manipulative. But then, there were a lot of people crying on social media because someone dared to say something they didn’t like. Waaa. Biden’s team used this to begin censoring conservatives and anyone that dared to voice an opinion in opposition to what they wanted to be known. That is why Musk bought Twitter. When the government gets into the business of censoring free speech, you are heading to a tyrannical society. It’s bad enough when businesses do it. Some things need to be censored. Let’s say someone was communicating via social media about plans to do a terrorist attack. Yeah, that ought to be shut down. But someone saying they think Hunter’s Laptop was real? Why should that be censored?

tempest in a teapot

Boycotts, except in very rare circumstances, simply don’t work. Twitter or Facebook won’t even know that the people are missing – they are such a small number of users, it’s like a grain of sand on the seashore.

Sure, the boycotters may feel good and self-righteous and full of themselves. But the act itself is completely meaningless.

Bottom line – who cares?

^I care.

I use reddit and enjoy it. I support the subs that are disallowing links from various sites that pander to Maga. I have curated my feed to beautiful photography, LGBTQ things, cats, paintings, and other lovely such subjects.

I have started limiting my use of FB and other Meta sites. I quit Twitter when Musk bought it.

I joined Bluesky and am building who I follow. I’m filling it with cats and LGBTQ feeds. I post on there now instead of FB.

I have an extremely small amount of power, but it is asinine to suggest that it’s useless not to use it.

”Boycotts don’t work”

Says people who live in a country that feels boycotts are so dangerous that they have outlawed them in 38 states.

Seawulf, people are saying the censorship is after TikTok got unbanned.
…because they feel TikTok is now being censored because of the ban (some people noticed comments criticising Meta have been removed).

- my post

I just saw a post that a friend made in a group, where she said that political groups on FB are closing because people are afraid of retaliation from law enforcement.

I don’t comment or like political posts in FB because I want my feed to remain politics-free. The only political discussions I engage in on the internet are here.

I just saw a post that a friend made, on FB, where she is mentioning the hypocrisy of “libs” in re: Musk’s salute, but no outrage when “libs do it” and she had photos of Taylor Swift, Obama, Hillary and a few others doing the salute, but it was so obviously AI that it was ludicrous. Her friends were all exclaiming about how it’s hypocritical and look at the people doing it. I was tempted to comment on it but I told myself don’t even, because I don’t feel like getting attacked by her friends and I don’t want political stuff to start showing up in my algorithm.

@hat don’t confuse political theater (boycott legislation in 38 states) with actual boycotts. Those laws are ridiculous, but make the politicians look like they are doing something.

Probably valid.

What may have started as a concern about data mining from a foreign country, has presented the current administration with an opportunity to control yet another propaganda machine.

It makes me think of Volksempfänger

Doesn’t impact me as I don’t use them. Typically these will do nothing in the end.

I have a Bluesky account, ready to jump ship. But I’m still on Facebook because I still have a network there for local advocacy work.

I was pretty amused to have this “creative writing contest” in my feed right after the TikTok ban. The winning story was pretty mediocre. But centered a pretty strong anti-Chinese propaganda, mentioning Little Red Book several times.

I’m no fan of communist China, but the heavy-handed anti-Chinese social media propaganda made me laugh.

So far all of the replies to my comment have been bot profiles. Which only makes it even more amusing.

I’m not on Tik-Tok or Instagram; I consider leaving FB but am not planning to do so at the mo. Since we are the product that these sites are selling, if enough people leave, it will bring down their income. I am trying to engage less on FB but it still has its uses for me.

@MakeItSo1701 That’s cool, I missed it. But it doesn’t change my answer. Go back and read my whole answer. I don’t support censorship except for in extreme cases. Criticizing Meta to me isn’t ban worthy. I do have to wonder, though, what some people call censorship. If the person was criticizing Meta and making all sorts of threats about it, that might be censor worthy. Just saying something like “Meta Sux” is not IMHO. Sometimes people get way out of control and then when they get clocked they try crying about censorship.

I support our choice to use whatever platform we are most comfortable with.
We do not shop at Walmart for a variety of reasons and am under no illusions that my purchases affects them in any way. After 15 years my opinions haven’t changed on that.

I think it only works if enough number of people boycott. Huge numbers that would make Bezos of Amazon, Zuck of FB and Instagram and Musk of Twitter to re-evaluate their politicking. I assume this is the reason for the boycott?

I’ve heard of this and I’m not generally a big boycotter. But here’s my thing. Until we get another good platform, and although I like BlueSky, I’m not sure it’s the one, this is one way that we can communicate with each other and keep informed about what is going on. I don’t trust a lot of the media nowadays. So I will be careful who I follow and what I read, but I’m not going to boycott any of them. I’m sure musk and everyone else would like everybody to remain in ignorance by cutting themselves off from all social media.