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84% Of Americans Want Tougher Online Privacy Laws, But Congress Is Too Corrupt To Follow Through (www.techdirt.com)

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[+] StaySquared@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

good luck with that... the bigger problem is that Americans are already demoralized to the point you cannot make the majority of them understand logic and reason, or science and proof for that matter, or they would already have this problem solved.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Very few of us have been following that. Unfortunately most people would rather have convenience.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Boycott only works with niche products, you will never make a business stop using microsoft office.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

Absolutely. I work for a company historically locked in Microsoft infrastructure. It's taken me close to 7 years, but we're finally finishing the migration of the in-house platform from Windows - only to kubernetes based and WEBGUI. Once that's done, everyone gets to choose what they use (windows, Mac, Linux, BSD) and moving forward my boss agreed that all company laptops will be from System76.

So, yeah, 7 years, but I never quit. 2K+ employees.