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So. LJ drama. You know I don't usually bother. But there are times when I just think, what's the point?
You know what I did this week? I offered to head up a steering group to co-ordinate and create facilities for homeless people in my hometown. People who don't even have a place to sleep at night, who can't afford to feed themselves, who go days, weeks, wearing the same clothes. They and I live in a town where the local authorities practically refuse to admit that there even are any rough sleepers here, so it's left to volunteers and members of the public to step up and do something with what limited resources we have. I go out each week and see people whom I know are homeless, dealing with substance addictions and estranged from their families. And yet here are people protesting about their blogs?
No one's impinging on anyone's rights here. No one has the right to blog - for a company to provide you with a forum to voice your opinion about whatever you want is a privelige, and a pretty nice one at that. We are customers paying for a service (or not paying, as the case may be).
You want to protest over unethical business decisions? How about Tesco's choice to promote its intensively reared chickens over its free range, organic ones? Proctor & Gamble's inhumane treatment of animals which is funded every time you buy Pringles, Tampax, Fairy Liquid, Always, Max Factor, Pantene, Olay, Head & Shoulders, Iams, or any number of other products? Nestle's numerous ethical fuck-ups?
All this energy that you put into ranting and raving over the privelige some of you don't even pay for could do wonderful things, if only you directed it towards something that actually would make the world a better place.
You know what I did this week? I offered to head up a steering group to co-ordinate and create facilities for homeless people in my hometown. People who don't even have a place to sleep at night, who can't afford to feed themselves, who go days, weeks, wearing the same clothes. They and I live in a town where the local authorities practically refuse to admit that there even are any rough sleepers here, so it's left to volunteers and members of the public to step up and do something with what limited resources we have. I go out each week and see people whom I know are homeless, dealing with substance addictions and estranged from their families. And yet here are people protesting about their blogs?
No one's impinging on anyone's rights here. No one has the right to blog - for a company to provide you with a forum to voice your opinion about whatever you want is a privelige, and a pretty nice one at that. We are customers paying for a service (or not paying, as the case may be).
You want to protest over unethical business decisions? How about Tesco's choice to promote its intensively reared chickens over its free range, organic ones? Proctor & Gamble's inhumane treatment of animals which is funded every time you buy Pringles, Tampax, Fairy Liquid, Always, Max Factor, Pantene, Olay, Head & Shoulders, Iams, or any number of other products? Nestle's numerous ethical fuck-ups?
All this energy that you put into ranting and raving over the privelige some of you don't even pay for could do wonderful things, if only you directed it towards something that actually would make the world a better place.