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.
I believe I said this. This was, I think, entirely my point. Who are their advertisers? Who is one specific advertiser? And specifically, who of their advertisers are well know for being anti-conservative?
Yup, Apple and Microsoft. Of these two, one is not only clearly weaker, but has something that most of us can actually target that will register and be seen. Hurting Microsoft means market share. Hurting Twitter means advertising dollars. It's a different type of target with a different weakness.
I think for the most part we're on the same page here on this aspect. They are advertisers. They're advertisers we can target. So let's do it! Let's do it! Let's use the Spotify model here.
"Attempting to “hurt” Microsoft would involve more than just using Linux."
"I can't"
Sigh.
"Microsoft’s stock would dip less than $1, if even that."
Yep. We're back to "I can't". Once again. This always happens. "I can't". And then nobody does nothing. And big tech just continues on hurt us.
There has been a lot of "I can't-ing" in this discussion with a lot of people. "I can't", "we can't", "they can't", "nobody can't", "you can't", "it won't make a difference", rationalization, rationalization, rationalization, rationalization, rationalization.
Neil Young didn't say "I can't". Now Spotify is two billion in the hole. He went out and recruited others.
Witness the power of "I can". This is the whole Alinsky model. Pick a target, personalize..........
We haven't even picked a target yet. Meanwhile, Spotify may very well be going out of business right before our eyes. The progressives definitely picked a target. They definitely personalized it. They are freezing it as we speak.
Sigh.