I think you're missing the forest for the trees.
What Neil Young himself cost Spotify, what do you think? 50 bucks? 75 bucks?
It's not about revenue. Forget the revenue. This is a waste of discussion time.
It's about market share. That's the weak spot.
No conservatives want to hurt big tech's market share, so we keep losing and big tech keeps winning.
Dan Bongino has entered the chat
He has left FB Twitter and YouTube..
Levin has also left several big tech platforms.
I think maybe you’re missing the other forest. Microsoft, Amazon, and Google (in that order) comprise the lion’s share of cloud markets across the globe. That means that “hurting their market share” involves almost every business larger than 100 employees deplatforming themselves from their cloud provider. That’s just not gonna happen.
You can hurt Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. by refusing to patronize their advertisers. The three of them exist almost solely due to advertising revenue, Amazon’s web sales notwithstanding.
Attempting to “hurt” Microsoft would involve more than just using Linux. I would argue that if every home user in the world dropped Windows for Linux, Microsoft’s stock would dip less than $1, if even that. Operating systems don’t account for much of anything in the big tech ecosystem anymore. Think bigger.