>>965546
>Screaming vote with your wallets is well and good but that shouldn't negate the fact that consumers do have rights.
Okay, and these companies
don't not give a flying fuck about that. In fact, they purposely don't because they're implementing a lot of this stuff
FOR the government. Just look at the amound of data Snowy collects on their own PlayStation users:
https://archive.ph/nIYvi
>>965554
>"muh gubberment is ebul"
Because they are.
>Why is holding people to a standard good, when holding corporations accountable for breaking the law is wrongbad?
Because these companies are always going to continue doing what they've always been doing, regardless of if it's legal or not.
Especially if it's legal because then how can you declare that your rights are "not protected" when they haven't broken the law and did everything "legally"?
>>965562
> Never mind enforcing 'buying with your wallet' is like herding cats.
You don't need to get "everyone" to reject a practice in order for it to die out, which is probably where a lot of people are misunderstanding. You just need 20%-30% of the "regulars" to do it just to make an impact. For example, electric cars are
never going to take off here in the U.S. with the way things are going and despite the overlords' attempts to force it through. Over 80% of the public still drives gas-guzzlers, meanwhile EVs take up "6.5%" of market:
https://archive.ph/QP9ZC
And that's
AFTER 14 years of non-stop propaganda:
https://archive.ph/onzCx
Even vehicle manufacturer's are outright admitting that EVs are not the future:
https://archive.ph/KUSt7
Though, they're suggestion of using hybrids isn't going to be good enough for the overlords' demands:
https://archive.ph/QXATs#selection-2753.0-2753.237
If you want another example, vaccine rates never rose above 80% despite the
MONTHS of blantantly illegal coercion, with "up to date" vaccinations still have below a 70% compliance rate:
https://archive.ph/T7Dzt
If that's not enough, here's another tidbit of history you probably didn't know:
Anywhere from a third to a quarter of the American colonists actually fought in the Revolutionary War, the remainder didn't or were supporting the English. Noticing a pattern:
https://infogalactic.com/info/Pareto_principle
>>965580
>he (assuming it's the same guy) completely ignores that you can avoid buying the game and still have an issue with how a game or company handles an issue, and that that's something worth voicing concern over because it affects the rest of the industry and, as a result, other videogames
You do realize that you're describing my circumstance, right? The most "recent" video games I have are from 2016, primarily because that's the year where I said "enough" with this bullshit. Meaning all the complaints that I'm making are a result of me seeing where the industry is going, refusing to participate in it, and trying to tell people to hop on board with no longer accepting this by refusing to continue supporting these companies.
>That's why laws exist, and why standards and practices are put in place for industries to stop this kind of shit happening on an even larger scale.
Except this is
already happening on a larger scale. Biggest example is how vehicles are already being sold on subscription plans with invasive privacy issues, despite the fact that you can (
And should) buy and drive literally any other car made in the past 50 years that lacks these issues.
No, all the new "bonuses" it comes with doesn't matter. Do you want control over your vehicles, or do you want someone else to control it?
>>965580
>Upton Sinclair
<Look up his page: https://infogalactic.com/info/Upton_Sinclair
<Sinclair was an outspoken socialist and ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a nominee from the Socialist Party.
https://infogalactic.com/info/The_Jungle
<He first published the novel in serial form in 1905, in the Socialist newspaper, Appeal to Reason, between February 25, 1905 and November 4, 1905.
https://infogalactic.com/info/Appeal_to_Reason_(newspaper)
<The Appeal to Reason was a weekly left-wing political newspaper published in the American Midwest from 1895 until 1922. The paper was known for its politics, lending support over the years to the Farmers' Alliance and People's Party before becoming a mainstay of the Socialist Party of America, following that organization's establishment in 1901. Making use of a network of highly motivated volunteers known as the "Appeal Army" to spur subscription sales, paid circulation of the Appeal climbed to more than a quarter-million copies by 1906 and half a million by 1910, making it the largest-circulation socialist newspaper in American history.
<...
<Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle was first published as a serial in the Appeal to Reason, between February 25, 1905, and November 4, 1905. Chapter 30 includes a description of the newspaper, which was read by the novel's protagonist, Jurgis Rudkus.
So the purpose of the novel wasn't actually about improving the conditions of the meat packing plants. It was to bring about a Socialist Revolution in America.
Great example!
>instead of being concerned that same issue could leech out to other products or affect you even though you didn't contribute directly to its existence
And do you want to know what Sinclair's response to regulation was?
https://infogalactic.com/info/The_Jungle
<Sinclair rejected the legislation, which he considered an unjustified boon to large meat packers. The government (and taxpayers) would bear the costs of inspection, estimated at $30,000,000 annually. He complained about the public's misunderstanding of the point of his book in Cosmopolitan Magazine in October 1906 by saying, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."