Let’s wargame this - cause I know you’ll participate with me. Let’s lay out the pertinent facts here.
Fact #1: Big Tech is comprised of five anti-conservative companies, not two. It’s Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter.
Fact #2: Google, Microsoft and Apple are advertisers on Facebook and Twitter. Microsoft and Apple advertise on Google as well.
Fact #3. Out of these five big tech companies, Microsoft is the easiest target. The phone scene isn’t nearly as ready for prime time, which makes Google and Apple harder targets.
War game: If a massive amount of conservatives actually were serious about doing more than just complaining, and got off of big tech Microsoft, that would significantly alter the entire technological scene. The obvious home would be Linux. But most importantly, it would be conservatives de-monitizing a huge advertiser for both Twitter and Facebook.
It’s two birds with one stone. It’s the domino effect. Now where can we find any conservatives who are motivated enough to “Spotify them” the way they are currently “Spotifying” Joe Rogan?
Right here with Spotify - right here - progressives are showing us exactly how we need to treat big tech. I just don’t think most people have the stomach to actually do it cause if they did they would’ve already been doing it.
Umm... you do understand that the grand majority of Microsoft market share is from their Azure cloud business, right? You planning to boycott all of the companies using Azure? How about Microsoft 365? Might as well become Amish, bud. Going to Linux means NOTHING to Microsoft. Matter of fact, over 60% of their cloud business runs on Linux.
Every corporation I know of uses the Microsoft Office platform. A bunch of random Conservatives will barely make a dent.
“Out of these five big tech companies, Microsoft is the easiest target.”
I strongly disagree. Microsoft’s value is closing on $2 Trillion. They are extremely diverse - much more than just software.
I believe that the easiest target is Twitter. Their net worth is only $35 Billion. They are pretty much a one-trick pony, and there are plenty of alternatives.
Good ideas. The problem is Microsoft gets the vast majority of their funding from businesses, and no business can survive without Excel.
Don’t forget to account for the big 3 in cloud (Google, Microsoft, and Amazon).
That’s been the siren’s call (and doom) for some of the new-media startups — “oh I can start up and scale, watch me launch and grow and oh oops I’ve just been told that unless I institute ‘fact-checking’ and banning mirroring YT and Twitter my whole enterprise, running on Someone Else’s Servers (which is cloud in a nutshell) will be taken down.”
First terminology is important. Let’s “pro-activate” this. We need to actually get pro-active in mass.
I have thought about this for years now. First a serious target and example of organized strength and resolve in numbers that really matter needs to be made. The biggest statement I could come up with is shut down and boycott the internet for a week straight or more. No purchases, no banking, no platform support, No add revenue, nothing.
Since the medium and shackles they are enslaving us with is the internet, a serious blow to this tool of addiction and mind control would go a long ways towards showing that we do indeed have the strength to say no to the addiction. “What about conservative sites?”, Drop the greed and take a hit for the team, the rewards after will be 20 fold. A mass vacation per say.
Then as you say target Microsoft and go all in. There are support groups everywhere to help make this happen. Next hit the banks one at a time starting with Chase, Actually make an effort to go and shut accounts and refinance everything elsewhere.
By the time we get to this point the hits on the stock market will speak for themselves and they will start to serious pay attention. Then organize and start picking one new target every quarter and seriously concentrate mass boycotting at these one at a time. NBA, NFL, NASCAR, Etc.
They will get so gunshy they will be dreading that their name might appear in the list. Just having their name appear on the list as a target will crash their stocks. Why? because they will absolutely have no doubt that we can and will do it with all seriousness and effect.
People here couldn’t even sacrifice not using Amazon OR Twitter, GIVE ME A DAMN BREAK!! When Amazon took the servers down for Parler I closed my account and NEVER LOOKED BACK!! I was an Amazon junkie that truck was at my house every damn day!! If we can’t make the sacrifices WE NEED to make the left will ALWAYS WIN!! We do EXACTLY the same damn when voting we know how Graham, McConnell and the rest stab us in the back repeatedly YET we keep voting the, back into office, you know the lesser of two evil YET they are NOT nor have they EVER BEEN the lesser of two evil!! If we can’t sacrifice ONE senate term to the Dem to rid ourselves of these backstabbing bastards we get what we deserve! Instead of focusing on a Dem seat we could POSSIBLY turn in another state it is just EASIER to keep the backstabbing asshats!
let me pose a question... is there a difference for me, sitrep, to not log into FB at all, or log in and talk to friends but never ever buy a single thing from that site?
facebook and twitter would be easier targets ... I that is who Trump is going after with DWAC ...
I don’t think Microsoft is the easy target. In fact they just spent $70 billion to buy one of the most popular gaming companies, trying to get a deep entre into the metaverse. Younger users, embedded advertising, more subscription income, and programming expertise they couldn’t attract before. Microsoft is a better target for a DoJ ordered breakup than as a target of conservatives.