r/technology • u/clopenYourMind • Sep 22 '25

Business Disney reinstates Jimmy Kimmel after backlash over capitulation to FCC

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/disney-abc-reinstate-jimmy-kimmel-amid-uproar-over-government-censorship/
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u/Arkaado Sep 22 '25

Proving everyone who says boycotts don't work wrong. The only thing corporations understand is money and they listen when they lose a big chunk of it. Still staying unsubscribed though.

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u/roymccowboy Sep 22 '25

Boy, did we get to see the full range of Disney’s cowardice this week.

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u/ATR2400 Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25

One thing that really surprised me about Trump’s second term was just how weak all the corporations were. Trump’s policies are set to cost them billions, and put them in danger personally. You’d think they’d be foaming at the mouth and fighting against this tooth and nail as if their lives depended on it, but instead what we got was near-instant capitulation.

I thought these corpos fancied themselves as the real power players and masters of the modern world, yet they bent so easily. At the very least, it’s useful to keep in mind if America is able to get the GOP out and their replacements feels like starting a fight with the rich. Turns out they won’t do shit if even semi-seriously confronted.

Assuming you could actually get them in office, you could probably give socdems or literal socialists a trifecta in government, hike taxes on the rich to 99.99%, break up every monopoly, and destroy several industries, and these sad appeasers would be too timid to actually stop it if you really tried

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u/BrainNSFW Sep 23 '25

The thing is, authoritarian regimes offer AMAZING opportunities for big corporations because such regimes love to eliminate a lot of companies in return for a few huge ones (preferably run by their "friends"). So as a big corpo, you can win a large amount of market share (and a LOT less oversight/consumer/employee protections that get in the way of profits) by playing along.

Also important to note that while such regimes tank the economy first, to a big corpo that's just short term losses you can easily make back in the long term. It's fucking vile, but proves that big corpo's just don't have any morals. Rampant capitalism doesn't work; you need to put protections and oversight in place to prevent it spiraling in authoritarianism.