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Evil Thought On FanLib
29 May 2007 23:54Mum told me a lovely tale about a controversy that happened near on 20 years ago.
Ever heard of Proctor and Gamble? They distributed a lot of commercial product. So apparently they were idiots and said something on TV about bringing down Christianity. If Snopes says it's false, that doesn't change the result of what the rumour caused - that is, the near bankruptcy of P&G because people who heard about this boycotted their products.
Mum's reason for bringing this up? If all of fandom boycotted FanLib's sponsors, and told people they know IRL to boycott it, then maybe enough loss of revenue can be brought on those companies to make them stop supporting FanLib and therefore bring FanLib crashing to it's knees.
That's if Fandom really wanted to be nasty. :)
Ever heard of Proctor and Gamble? They distributed a lot of commercial product. So apparently they were idiots and said something on TV about bringing down Christianity. If Snopes says it's false, that doesn't change the result of what the rumour caused - that is, the near bankruptcy of P&G because people who heard about this boycotted their products.
Mum's reason for bringing this up? If all of fandom boycotted FanLib's sponsors, and told people they know IRL to boycott it, then maybe enough loss of revenue can be brought on those companies to make them stop supporting FanLib and therefore bring FanLib crashing to it's knees.
That's if Fandom really wanted to be nasty. :)
