People forget Disney was founded by a nazi.
Submitted 6 months ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world
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y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
AshCircuit@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
I can’t believe the people who use Lemmy also subscribe to things like Disney Plus. 🤣
NerdyKeith@lemmy.world 6 months ago
To be fair it’s the best place for Star Wars and Marvel content. But there are other means of acquiring such media, which I will not divulge on the internet.
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I used it for Bob’s burgers which i listen to when going to sleep and for my kid to have some shows to watch.
Canceled em, though. Told em they were coward who bent to Nazis.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Me, who has been pirating without breaks since Limewire existed and the closest I got to these services was Hulu before they got sued (back when it was free): Yarr matey.
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
They took it down to stop cancellations. The mass exodus hopefully continues.
America is built on shareholders getting profits. If they don’t make money, things change.
donalonzo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, there’s no chance a company like Disney can’t serve a SPA for cancellation at this scale. This is deliberate.
glitch1985@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I definitely know what SPA means in this context but could you explain for everyone else?
demizerone@lemmy.world 6 months ago
God damn antifa
Teal@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
That’s when you call your credit card company to let them know you want to cancel payment but the website isn’t allowing at this time.
Politely request cancellation of any automated payments going forward and if one went through recently see if it’s possible to initiate a charge back. Not sure if a charge back would work in this situation but worth a try.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Most people don’t know that they can do this. It’s a good reminder.
Dionysus@leminal.space 6 months ago
- Apple: Open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad. Tap your Apple ID name, then Subscriptions. Select Disney+ and tap Cancel Subscription.
- Google Play: Open the Google Play Store. Tap your profile icon, then Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions. Tap Disney+ and Cancel subscription.
- Roku: Press the Home button on your Roku remote. Highlight the Disney+ app and press the Star button. Select Manage subscription and click Cancel Subscription.
- Amazon: Go to www.amazon.com/appstoresubscriptions. Find Disney+ and click Actions, then Cancel Subscription.
Their phone number is on their page… (You don’t seriously accept phone numbers directly from social media do you? Check the source!) Contact Us | Disney+ Help Center help.disneyplus.com/contact-us/account-billing?ta…|phone
madcaesar@lemmy.world 6 months ago
To the top with you!
Clbull@lemmy.world 6 months ago
As disgusted as I am with the people that have been openly celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination, I don’t think death should automatically make somebody immune from criticism. All Kimmel did was point out that the MAGA crowd are desperately trying to characterize Tyler Robinson as a dangerous leftist, despite evidence so far pointing to him being a Gropyer (alt-right white nationalist faction that has openly feuded with Charlie Kirk.)
Kimmel deserves better than to be cancelled because Trump is a twiggered wittle snowflake who can take about as much criticism as a Reddit or Discord moderator.
Thinking of canceling Disney+? You’re not alone
I already cancelled mine over a year ago because Disney tried to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit on the grounds that the family had agreed to a forced arbitration clause, all because their daughter signed up for a Disney+ trial. Do I even need to explain how much of a ***cunt ***you need to be in order to wave a forced arbitration agreement at a grieving family whose loved one was killed by the gross negligence of a staff member?
(also, the fact that I can type this comment on Lemmy and not Reddit says it all.)
Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Why are you disgusted by people being happy a fascist cant cause more damage?
scratchee@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Because no matter how harmful he may have been in life, his death is probably more harmful.
We had enough problems without tit-for-tat assassinations of anyone that anyone else dislikes.
The Luigi assassination didn’t come out so bad since there wasn’t a strong political back and forth (there was some, but he wasn’t really a political/public figure, just an arsehole ceo, and didn’t make a great wedge issue), this one is much more dangerous, and yeah, probably it would have been better if he’d continued his harmful speeches from a limited platform than become and excuse for so many “justified” attacks on the left.
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’d add one thing. This isn’t Trump cancelling him, he may only be slightly aware of the situation. His people saw an opportunity to make their own Horst Wessel and jumped on it. And fuck me, for once they did something that actually worked.
Auli@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Trump is so canceling him. He literally sent a message after Colbert that Kimmel was next. And look what happened 2 months later.
Clbull@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Part of the reason Stephen Colbert’s show is getting cancelled is over the Trump Administration approving a merger between Paramount and NBC?
And then they decided to offer South Park Studios a $1.5bn deal…
restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
The guy was suing for $50K +expenses. That is not even a drop in the bucket for Disney and they fought it. That says plenty about the culture over there.
kokesh@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Unfortunately I can’t cancel, as I’m not a subscriber. I’ll at least go and hammer refresh on their cancellation page with caching turned off.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Why would you make it harder for people to cancel?
roofuskit@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You should ddos the subscribe page instead.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 6 months ago
This
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
damn why didn’t I think of that
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s just making it harder for people who actually want to quit.
kokesh@lemmy.world 6 months ago
… and I added abc.com and disney+ to dns rewrite in my network to group pointing to ip 666.666.666.666. So no disney for anyone visiting our accommodation and outdoor adventures. They can watch it over their own data.
Ulrich@feddit.org 6 months ago
Just the cancellation page? That’s not suspicious at all…
Quazatron@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I feel sad that I can’t boycott these spineless cowards because I haven’t been a customer since forever.
brem@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I never was a customer, so I’m not sure what to do in this situation?
stephen01king@piefed.zip 6 months ago
Seed more?
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I suggest more pirate hats. People should be pirating TV and NFL. They do not deserve the money especially the NFL since they love to dig deep inside trump ass .
For people that wanna watch football and not support them, try nflbox.
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Combined.
kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
One single page crashed? Crazy!
Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Well that page should be controlled by a load balancer sent to several servers to handle the load. Strange for a corporation at that level to not mitigate traffic and get ddos by its customers.
rikudou@lemmings.world 6 months ago
In a company with their money? When their service is made to handle huge amounts of data for streaming? Yeah, pretty crazy.
tatann@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Don’t forget to put you reviews on app stores, with how many stars you seem appropriate
Luouth@lemmy.world 6 months ago
[deleted]OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 6 months ago
citation needed
claimsou@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Release another popular show and people will come back. Political activism by not watching tv is the bottom of the barrel.
Ulrich@feddit.org 6 months ago
Political activism by withdrawing payment is the most powerful form of activism.
claimsou@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I remember French Revolution being a tat more than cancelling a Star Wars account.
MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 6 months ago
MONEY is all they care about. So it matters.
WaitThisIsntReddit@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Can they? At least on the marvel and star wars side they’ve been releasing pure garbage.
AceBonobo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think “thought and prayers” are the bottom of the barrel. This is actively withholding money from Disney. And Disney LOVES money. If enough people stop giving Disney money, then the “line goes up” people will not get tens of millions of dollars and they’ll have to take some action. This isn’t a meaningless gesture. Obviously it depends on how many people cancel their subscriptions. How’s spotify doing nowadays?
claimsou@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You are right. There is always lower. But it would be naive to bet on internet hype for having any consequences. Yes , you, me, many here, might change purchasing behavior for longer. But this is a microcosm and such a tiny fraction of the mass.
Maybe you are young and full of hope and I am old and already disenchanted. Don’t change.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
I would imagine that the crash was mandated by management.
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Americans aren’t very persistent over political issues like this. Stave 'em off a few days and they’ll forget and give up.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
100%
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
even that is a good sign. it means there’s was enough of an effect for them to care.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
“Make that page accidentally crash right now!”
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It doesn’t take a lot of pressure to make a company cave, the James Gunn saga is one example.
If this causes a noticeable drop in revenue for them, they will care.
Ulrich@feddit.org 6 months ago
It won’t cause a noticeable drop more than having their broadcasting license revoked, which is what they were threatened with. Kimmel will likely cave.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That would be a blatantly first amendment violation. Their capitulation is the only thing making the threat function.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
But they want really care, in a moral sense, they’ll just do what helps them make money. There all soulless.
Auli@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I mean just cause your government thinks corporations are people, they are not.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Not to sound like a broken record, but this is again a real world example of why corporations aren’t people. The entire point of forming a corporation is to make a company completely devoid of individual responsibility. It becomes its own entity, but that entity is a machine. Each individual within the company is just following a predetermined set of rules/orders.
They’ll always just do what helps them make money over what is moral, but I don’t even believe that’s a disparaging remark as much as a factual one. It’s just how corporations are meant to work.
Corporations are absolved of moral responsibility just like any machine. Since the ends have already been predetermined, the closest to individual autonomy humans have is the decision to participate or not.
Either they make money, or they don’t survive. Starving corporations by not feeding them your money is literally the only way to force them to change their predetermined survival strategy or parish. It’s also why huge conglomerates that take away any choice in support are such a threat.
PenguinMage@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The problem is, there was no reason to cave. Likewise there is no reason for Kimmel to even come back if they can waffle so easily, he doesn’t need the money and could probably shop a show on cable somewhere to have more say in how he can make fun of a current administration however fascist they wanna play or how much they want to play the victim.
impudentmortal@lemmy.world 6 months ago
From what I understand based on Colbert’s monologue, their motivations for suspending Kimmel is completely monetary based. ABC affiliate company Nexstar made a $6.2 billion deal to acquire TEGNA Inc and Disney which owns ABC made a deal to get some NFL assets in exchange for a 10% stake in ESPN (valued at around $3 billion).
Both of these acquisitions will need FCC approval to go through. Take a guess at what they’re willing to do to get that approval.
superfes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You’re not wrong, I personally didn’t even like Kimmel, but money walks, and I hope it still has some speech left to it.
obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
If people would have gotten this upset back when it was Medi Hassan and Joy Reid we might not have gotten here.