Technology

In school I had to take Business Ethics. The processor officially renamed the course to Ethical Issues in Business, because, as he explained it in class, business has no ethics, but ethical issues arise all the time. I took it to mean that capitalism destroyed humanity, and those of us that are still left humane must deal with ethical issues in a business (ethicless) setting.

Capitalism by its nature will carry out unethical behavior if it means profit. So no, business was always soulless. That's why regulation needs to exist, so the penalty for unethical behavior will negate the profit they could make from it.

Ethics never enter the equation. The highest priority in business is capital, and any company at the level of Netflix follows that maxim religiously. They may be seen following progressive trends, but any good they end up doing only stems from it being profitable to do so.

In other words - no, companies have never not been soulless, and it serves us well to always remember that.

When is his bad PR ever over?

They were always going to. As long as Xitter has a user base with money to spend, the large corporations do not care. Anything they do like withdrawing advertising is all for show.

And after all, are you going to cancel your Netflix subscription over this? I actually probably would personally but my partner uses it quite a lot, so we're sticking around. Some people will cancel no doubt but nowhere near a critical mass that will affect their bottom line and they know it.

I mean, who didnt expect it to happen?

Its literally what they did the last time there was a major controversy with twitter.

They pull advertising because they dont want to be caught in the splash damage, not because they are actually offended at the behavior.

As soon as the outrage dies down, the advertising resumes.

They wouldn't have called it a "pause" otherwise.

With moisture in the air and the gentle sea breeze upon our faces; life is good.

Yup. Upgraded my Plex drives, 15tb of music and movies.

Once they raised prices I created a media server with jellyfin (+Sonarr, Radarr, QBittorrent) and never looked back.

Automatically downloads new episodes of my favorite shows

Got my own personal netflix accesible anywhere with infinite users. No one can cancel an episode of my fav show and erase it from existence.

Always has been.

why do you still have it after all this time

They’re advertising specific shows.

Netflix spent about $1.5 billion on advertising in 2022. They could just randomly give a million people +$1000 and probably get better word-of-mouth advertising that way.