You don’t think the saudis having a great deal of control over the content your fellow countryman engages with has any effects you should care about?
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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 14 hours agoI’m not sure how much I should care. I haven’t bought a Ubisoft game in decades anyway. They don’t make anything I need, so it’s not like it’s an inconvenience to boycott.
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
You underestimate my level of cynicism at this point. You also underestimate my disrespect for the average gamer. If they’re not lapping up on form of propaganda, they’re lapping up another.
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Absolutely the case, but we can’t throw nuance to the wind just because bad things will continue to happen. SA propaganda is definitely note worthily worse than many other forms.
Whats more, I feel that gaming generally is more focused on trying to use marketting dark patterns to encourage spending than pushing any messages typically. This makes them, in my mind, even more vulnerable as they won’t even be expecting it as their viewpoints change over time.
FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
What’s he going to do to stop it? It’s not his fault
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Where did you read me saying it was their fault, or that I expected them to stop it?
I said neither thing.
All I am saying is it’s something to pay attention to, and its not good when media sources are bought by the saudis.
Why keep this in mind? In case there is ever somewhere that does make this relevant. Like maybe it should be in the eyes of the public more such that its a political talking point so regulating agencies are less happy with letting companies be sold to SA.
FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
You took a leap from someone being excited about a company they hate hypothetically being bought, down their throat because they’re not as worried as you are about the hypothetical odds of the buyer being Saudi Arabia, and what downstream effects that might have on American culture.
It’s just a weird thing to press someone on
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
Every now and then someone calls for a boycott, and I say that I’ve already been boycotting them all my life, and didn’t even know it.
Alternatively, sometimes there are calls to boycott something, and it turns out I’ve been boycotting them for years over some old atrocity. For instance, United Airlines gets boycotted regularly, but I’ve been boycotting them for decades, for lots of other shitty behavior (destroying guitars, beating up doctors who refuse to give up their paid-for seat, etc.), as well as having the highest fares in the business.