Re:Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:21PM
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Like today majority of soft drink consumers boycott Coca Cola?
See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Coca-Cola#Investm...
Actual experience has proven beyond doubt that boycotts don't work, and even if a company has blood on its hand, their deeds are quickly forgotten.
Re:Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai
by puranjay on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:08PM
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Your own link talks about how the drink was boycotted across campuses.
But you can't bring up the Apartheid and not dig through a huge history of companies, countries and people explicity or implicitly supporting it.
Doesn't justify anything of course but Coca-Cola wasn't the only company doing it
Re:Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai
by TeMPOraL on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @04:24AM
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> Your own link talks about how the drink was boycotted across campuses.
Didn't change much.
> Doesn't justify anything of course but Coca-Cola wasn't the only company doing it
That's my point, though. Plenty of companies have engaged in abhorrent acts, with little meaningful consequences to them. The market is not good at solving these types of problems.
Plus, most other companies will refuse to supply goods and services to it lest they feel the backlash of catering to racists.
Not exactly a feasible venture.