alt Hacker NewsSome people feel like we are being turned into content producers for large corporations to monetize and they’re not entirely wrong. I don’t mind when people take a stance, even if their methods aren’t perfect and it may inconvenience myself personally.
If you’re in rush to airport or hospital and you are delayed by protesters for a cause you don’t understand, it’s one thing, I could understand a bit of cursing. However, this is someone’s web resource, they are free to do with it whatever they want, and they owe you and me nothing.
> I don’t mind when people take a stance, even if their methods aren’t perfect and it may inconvenience myself personally.
The problem is that not only their methods "aren't perfect", but completely ineffective.
If you are posting on a public social network, your data will be available to the public, one way or another. The whole protest becomes a "performance art" kind of thing: it might be useful for creating awareness, but in most cases the people who will be seeing it are the ones who are aware of it in the first place.