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[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

if you distance yourself from every company that has a dick executive, youre going to need to go off-grid. good luck.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I distance myself from companies run by people who say or explicitly support people who say that I don't or shouldn't exist. There are a few other things that make me distance myself from companies, but that one is a pretty hard line. (I'm gender "non-compliant" and on the Autism spectrum among other things that have been explicitly said don't exist, shouldn't exist, or need to be "cured"). Otherwise, I try to distance myself from any companies who explicitly collect and sell my information and other things that I find problematic, but that's not always possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 53 minutes ago

Keep fighting the good fight!

(I'm trying to be encouraging, but obviously finding a baseline decent mail or other tech provider shouldn't have to be a "fight" ...)

[–] [email protected] 23 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

People on all social media really can't seem to understand that the choices aren't exclusively "everything has a perfect open source, non-profit utopia" and "fuck it, everyone is corrupt so it doesn't matter what service you use."

You are able to do what you can, where you can, to mitigate risks and try your best not to support fascists. Especially when there are a dozen alternatives.

Then again, maybe people are just arguing in bad faith.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Using the official company social media to double down on what the CEO said = company policy = how company will act