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How much does a creator's worldview influence whether you use their tech or consume their media? (beehaw.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Watching the drama around kagi unfold and it has me wondering how much you take into consideration a creator's view on things like homophobia, sexism, racism, etc. when deciding to use a product. I think most of us have a bar somewhere (I would imagine very few on this website would ever consider registering on an altright platform), so where is that bar for you? What about art? Have you boycotted JKR or dropped your opinion about Picasso because they're transphobic and misogynistic respectively? Is it about the general vibe of a product or piece of media, or are you more discerning? What goes into this decision and why?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Honestly, there is so much art and so many services and tools out there, that I try to avoid sending money towards ones made by shitty people.

I loved HP as a kid, but I'm not going to support JKR's dullard takes on trans people. It's clear she knows literally nothing beyond what her transphobic friend and their wine club "LGB Alliance" of straight white women tell her, but she still feels the need to parrot it online in front of millions of people. And guess what? There are other books about magic out there.

In terms of my judgement criteria, it's not some fixed system, but my 2 main considerations are:

How much does a bad person benefit financially from the product?
How much are bad people responsible for the creation of the product?

Generally-speaking, if either of those can be answered with "A lot", I avoid it.

So for instance, in the case of Hogwarts: Legacy, while JKR wasn't responsible for making the product almost at all, she publicly indicated that she was making a lot of money from it, so I did not purchase it.

Ditto for AWS; once I was able to afford a cheap refurb server, I shut down my AWS accounts and been self-hosting everything.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Very similar to how I view it. I will also add that if they have a platform and use it for terrible things, then that also comes into play.