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Re:Patagonia Is Boycotting Facebook, Urges Other Companies t... by mikeryan on Friday October 29, 2021 @02:10PM (#29041714)
If this was a one off event I could see your point of view but Patagonia has a long history of putting their money where there mouth is including donating 1% of all revenues and pretty much alienating about half of their addressable market with stunts like putting “Vote the assholes out” in their tags and suing the federal government to prevent a scale back on designations of federal monuments.

Corporate activism frequently does seem to be a bit about PR but Patagonia is one of the best examples we have of it in practice.

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Re:Patagonia Is Boycotting Facebook, Urges Other Companies t... by ISL on Friday October 29, 2021 @02:12PM (#29041743)
I'm pretty sure "vote the assholes out" is a strategy most of us can get behind. We might disagree about who they are, exactly, but voting for good governance is a widely-shared aspiration.
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