Ben & Jerry’s is actually cool though, no? Although they’re a capitalistic enterprise in the full sense, they had the spine to put a stand against Gaza genocide
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Yes, but 1000 mirrors will pop up immediately if that happens. Internet is hard to control. They can’t even stop torrenting sites which is mostly used for piracy.
piyuv@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's something that's seen as Obsolete, but isn't?131·2 months agoSpotify is not owned by Tencent. It’s publicly traded, and tencent owns part of it.
There are a lot of reasons to hate Spotify (and Daniel Ek) but this is not one of it.
The short version: Tencent Holdings is about to own 10 percent of Universal, which in turns owns around 3.5 percent in Spotify, which in turn owns around nine percent in Tencent Music Entertainment, which in turn is part-owned by Universal’s two main rivals (Warner and Sony), but remains majority owned by Tencent Holdings, which in turn owns 9.1 percent of Spotify. (And, yes, no kidding, that’s the short version.)
https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/who-really-owns-spotify-955388/
piyuv@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's something that's seen as Obsolete, but isn't?4·2 months agoIsn’t Wii 720p? Raspberry pi 4 would be better
Tech companies touting privacy with “trust us bro” slogan
Here’s a scientific dissertation on how and why that phrase sucks: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565
It’s so easy to use but very hard to fights against. Worst case of bullshit.