Battle for Libraries
www.battleforlibraries.com
Don’t let libraries die. As the future goes digital, major publishers are suing to cut off libraries’ defense of digital books from censorship. It’s time to fight back.

It looks like the internet archive is needed assistance, I just heard about this today and figured lemmy could help spread this message around

  • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1812·
    5 months ago

    Modern corporations are a damned plague. Most of these fuckers would destroy our whole cultural heritage in a heartbeat if it meant making a profit.

    Yes, corporations exist to make profit, but come on, there are limits.

    • Einar@lemm.ee
      1272·
      5 months ago

      there are limits

      I am glad you have a moral centre.

      But that is the capitalist way. A Redditor once wrote: “*Corporations have no morals, no ethics, no code of conduct, no feelings, no empathy, and zero accountability. They have one goal and one goal only: to increase profits at all costs.”

      Case in point: the climate crisis. Corporations are literally destroying their own home for a symbol of success that, like their products, is man-made: money. It is the ultimate pursuit of vanity.

      Crazy, if you think about it for a moment.

      • MonkderDritte@feddit.de
        19·
        5 months ago

        Yeah. The monsters gnawing away at nature, public infrastructure, your friends? They are called corporations.
        Btw, megacorps have multiple faces and are especially hungry.

      • jherazob@beehaw.orgEnglish
        16·
        5 months ago

        The AI techbros wanna scare you with tales of AI becoming sentient and going rogue to destroy us all, when corporations, mindless machines made out of people to maximize profits at all cost, are already doing all that

      • Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works
        15·
        5 months ago

        i guess it doesnt matter to the execs, they will always have their little islands to live on while they destroy the rest of the world

      • z00s@lemmy.world
        7·
        5 months ago

        And yet by law in some places (the US being one, I believe) they are treated as people, with certain rights.

        • AbsentBird@lemm.ee
          16·
          5 months ago

          Like people, but with a feduciary responsibility to gain wealth at every opportunity. Corporations are almost like vampires: they don’t need food or water, they don’t age, they have inhuman power, yet they wear the guise of people; they pass as human to make it easier to drain us of our blood, an endless thirst they feel compelled to heed.

      • Citizen@lemmy.ml
        61·
        5 months ago

        Agreed, now what do we do about it?

        I quit a very very well paid IT job in a very big corp because I did not want to participate to their anti-human, anti-planet shit…

        What are you doing about it?

        • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          6·
          5 months ago

          What am I doing about it? For the most part, nothing at the moment besides actively refusing to purchase from a small number of companies—Nestlé, Walmart, Amazon, etc—mostly out of principal as I’m not illusioned enough to think one person will make a difference in this sense). Primarily because at the moment I live in a dead-end job making barely enough money to buy food and trying to keep my car from disintegrating long enough for me to get to work and back.

          Frankly, I’d love to do more, but there’s really not much I can do. Doesn’t mean I have to like it though. Just because you don’t have an alternative ready doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to dislike the current situation.

      • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        21·
        5 months ago

        I agree that that is the capitalist way, which is one of the reasons I hate capitalism. I’m no tankie, but I believe there are other ways, even ways that still use personal property as well as currency, beyond capitalism, which is just the use of personal property and currency to obtain more personal property and currency at all costs in an endless cycle.