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[–] alakey@piefed.social 404 points 1 week ago (8 children)

See you in a year or 2.

Play as old as times:

  1. Company announces garbage change
  2. People freak out
  3. Company says ok we will only do half of the garbage
  4. People calm down and forget
  5. Company later does the rest of the garbage
  6. Nobody cares because half of it is already there
[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 206 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Foot in the door technique is a timeless way to get what you want. People seem oblivious to it.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hear frogs experience the same phenomenon with hot water.

[–] new_guy@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Actually they only stay in the boiling water if their nervous system is impaired

[–] xylol@leminal.space 28 points 1 week ago

Good thing humans dont have nervous systems

[–] Doug@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

Hm? Did you say something? Sorry, I was distracted.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

Also works the other way around.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean it makes total sense the minute you think about it at all.

  • some middle managers year end goals include this unpalatable feature
  • they release it
  • public freaks out
  • pr walks it back a bit
  • that managers back at work the week after trying to get that feature in because they need to justify the work they just did on it for better compensation

It's the same with laws.

It's very hard to get the electorate united to oppose something but if they manage to unite and oppose a bill the lobbyists are back at work on Monday pushing it by a different name.

Laboyists are the scourge of democracy. Every last one of them has a rope and spear with their names written on them.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

100% Microslop.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Are you implying that CA regulators do exactly what disgusting corporations do?!? I am shocked sir!

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That reminds me. We are quickly approaching the date discord postponed age verification to.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

also known as TESTING the waters, gauging public response. so they can adapt under a different scheme.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Plucking the goose with a minimum of hissing.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

The principle that Bullshit, sprayed around often enough, becomes Air Freshener.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

This isn't exactly it.

First or isn't a company or is the government. 2nd, that legislation is just plain dumb and open source systems like Linux, BSD can't comply with it, even if they wanted to.

The whole law should be repealed though. They use children as excuse, bit it is about surveillance.