Comments on: Social Networking and Ethics: What Price Freedom? http://socialmediaphilosophy.com/community/what-price-freedom/ …he still dreamed of cyberspace…bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void… Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:04:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: DewiMorgan http://socialmediaphilosophy.com/community/what-price-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-56 DewiMorgan Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:34:44 +0000 http://socialmediaphilosophy.com/?p=122#comment-56 Good luck, Tricia - you and David are doing what seems to be the right thing: spreading awareness. That's the only way I can see to enact change, but damn, it's a long road to travel. I admire you both. Good luck, Tricia – you and David are doing what seems to be the right thing: spreading awareness. That’s the only way I can see to enact change, but damn, it’s a long road to travel. I admire you both.

]]> By: Tricia http://socialmediaphilosophy.com/community/what-price-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Tricia Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:51:05 +0000 http://socialmediaphilosophy.com/?p=122#comment-55 I feel exactly like you and I am sickened. These aren't like the "good" old days when you could boycott one product or one company and have an effect. A few companies own everything else and any losses due to a boycott will be compensated through a limb of their hundreds of other smaller corporations. Makes a person want to scream! I'm starting my own newspaper in my huge community. McClatchy and a few smaller corps got the hold here. But I will do it because I can. I know when I send out my first (miserly, poor excuse for an) issue I will look behind me to see if they are trailing me. Their papers promote their ads, their bottom line and have forgotten the people. My paper will bring school issues to the front; teachers who don't receive fair compensation and other political parties who don't get traction. I don't want to lose my nerve. I don't have time. I don't have money. But I have 30 years of Journalism experience and I must try this! Wish me well! Tricias last blog post..<a href="http://triciachambers.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/pushing-technology-chips-n-dip/" rel="nofollow">Pushing Technology: Chips n Dip</a> I feel exactly like you and I am sickened. These aren’t like the “good” old days when you could boycott one product or one company and have an effect. A few companies own everything else and any losses due to a boycott will be compensated through a limb of their hundreds of other smaller corporations. Makes a person want to scream!
I’m starting my own newspaper in my huge community. McClatchy and a few smaller corps got the hold here. But I will do it because I can. I know when I send out my first (miserly, poor excuse for an) issue I will look behind me to see if they are trailing me. Their papers promote their ads, their bottom line and have forgotten the people. My paper will bring school issues to the front; teachers who don’t receive fair compensation and other political parties who don’t get traction. I don’t want to lose my nerve. I don’t have time. I don’t have money. But I have 30 years of Journalism experience and I must try this! Wish me well!

Tricias last blog post..Pushing Technology: Chips n Dip

]]> By: DewiMorgan http://socialmediaphilosophy.com/community/what-price-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-54 DewiMorgan Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:16:50 +0000 http://socialmediaphilosophy.com/?p=122#comment-54 Water is a terrible thing, and kills people. But I love swimming, and I love drinking stuff with water in. Even if I ate only pure orange juice, well, that is tainted by its relationship with water too: it's almost all water! If I want to change the number of people killed by water, I should invest in, and campaign for, better lifeboats, security measures, navigation aids, regulations and weather forecasting. But all these things would mean me using water *more*. I should deprecate waterboarding and other water tortures. I should deprecate unsafe practices around water. I should educate water users about these as best I could. All these things would be more effective than going home, ensuring I never go out in the rain, and only drinking what I needed to stay alive. In Yahoo terms, that means letting Yahoo's *users* know where Yahoo falls down. A boycott is a very very quiet objection. You cannot make change from outside. Look at Nestlé: people have been boycotting them with very large campaigns for *decades*, and nothing at all has changed. "Voting with your feet" means nothing if you are the only one voting: it just means you will be lonely. But if a significant portion of the market votes with their feet, then that *can* make a change. But you have to have activism and education before that. Personal boycotts are like signing online petitions, or voting for a party which wins or loses by more than one vote: they make no difference to anything, but make you feel good. DewiMorgans last blog post..<a href="http://dewimorgan.livejournal.com/38595.html" rel="nofollow">Plurk timeline</a> Water is a terrible thing, and kills people. But I love swimming, and I love drinking stuff with water in. Even if I ate only pure orange juice, well, that is tainted by its relationship with water too: it’s almost all water!

If I want to change the number of people killed by water, I should invest in, and campaign for, better lifeboats, security measures, navigation aids, regulations and weather forecasting. But all these things would mean me using water *more*.

I should deprecate waterboarding and other water tortures. I should deprecate unsafe practices around water. I should educate water users about these as best I could.

All these things would be more effective than going home, ensuring I never go out in the rain, and only drinking what I needed to stay alive.

In Yahoo terms, that means letting Yahoo’s *users* know where Yahoo falls down.

A boycott is a very very quiet objection. You cannot make change from outside. Look at Nestlé: people have been boycotting them with very large campaigns for *decades*, and nothing at all has changed. “Voting with your feet” means nothing if you are the only one voting: it just means you will be lonely.

But if a significant portion of the market votes with their feet, then that *can* make a change. But you have to have activism and education before that.

Personal boycotts are like signing online petitions, or voting for a party which wins or loses by more than one vote: they make no difference to anything, but make you feel good.

DewiMorgans last blog post..Plurk timeline

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