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Hopium. Not enough to matter
All efforts great and small.
Agreed. Something is better than nothing, and if enough people get on board, it might just be enough to make a difference.
Extending that, it's going to take a lot of people doing a lot of different things, from all angles, to ultimately succeed in quashing fascism again.
Well, let's get crackin' then! 👊
Examples of simple, non-aggressive things that anyone can do:
I didn't see any numbers in TFA. Do you have any numbers? I think we just don't know.
More than one drove. Upper bound is infinite droves.
A drove has at least 4 people in it so we can establish an upper bound of 2.4 billion droves.
I think your upper bound is too many droves, the limit is total Disney Plus subscribers.
Here is some potentially useful data: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1095372/disney-plus-number-of-subscribers-us/
To me it looks like their numbers may be trending down already so a boycott could be extra effective. If they have lots of customers already considering leaving then giving them an excuse like participating in a boycott in defense of free speech could help accelerate that trend and make a bigger impact.
Well yes, it's not a very tight upper bound, but I was bringing it down from infinity. I'm glad the scientific process is working and we're refining this (in droves) over time.
Given that each person can hold as many accounts as they like, the number of accounts that've closed is anywhere from 8.01 to (2.4billion-.25)*4infinity (because I had only one account). I can see why they’re panicking
I think we can speculate with a high degree of confidence that it won't influence their profit growth projections.
I wouldn't be so sure about that, the Disney brand has taken a major hit here. I think it is still impossible to say what it is going to cost them but it will cost them, they certainly aren't making more money out of this. It is not a situation that makes the line go up, people are absolutely pissed at Disney.
I wouldn't hold my breath
I suspect the amount of money they'd need to lose before they change course is actually quite small.
Cowards will be cowards I say, but us simpletons don't understand the high stakes and day to day pressures of a modern multinational corporate conglomerate. They have profit margins, investor boards, and mergers to consider. Heavens! What good is free speech if they don't make more money this quarter than they made last quarter? Please, good people of the Fediverse, won't somebody think of the shareholders?