I've always understood "campground" to be a whole area open to camping with dozens or hundreds of campers. A campsite is where your group's claim is staked and the area you occupy including picnic tables, fires, etc--not just the tent.
I feel like your chosen examples are very disingenuous. If you're comparing data harvesting/leakage and video games to the atrocities caused by Big Military and the direction it's headed, you must be very disconnected from the real human casualty and suffering.
But to answer your point, yes. People have the autonomy to not do business with individuals and corporations that don't align with their values. It's a personal choice. You may not understand it, but if more people had convictions like this the world would likely be an entirely different place.
Well, define "big military" then. Do you mean the military industrial complex? Because famously, the private corporations aren't the ones demanding that we design superweapons or send your loved ones to war. That's congress, that's the Commander-in-Chief. Your elected representatives take the deterministic actions that decide who lives and dies in conflict, otherwise war would be apolitical.
He's well within his rights to protest whatever he wants. Prioritizing a beef with Spotify just seems hardly self-consistent with protesting the technological advancement of the military.
> if more people had convictions like this the world would likely be an entirely different place.
A functioning democracy only requires that people vote. If you want to take serious action towards world disarmament, stop voting pants-on-head insane representatives into power. You could bankrupt every single PMC and military contractor in the world, and governments would invent their own to fill their own security needs.
> Seeding an idea, to plant an idea does not jive here.
It does. If you want to see any reasonable policy passed instead of craziness, you need to convince some conspiracy groups to believe it, then it will be taken up by the administration and passed.
Plant the idea, they grow it and it gets passes. It's pretty clear that's what OP meant. 'Ceed', in this context makes no sense. In the discussed example policy is already coming from fringe groups, there is nothing to ceed to them. But to plant ideas with them that you want passed is how you'll get policy.
Note, not saying I agree or disagree with the original statement, just clarify what they meant by it.
That makes zero sense in this comment/context.
Are you spreading misinformation as the panel did, in an artistic act of mimicry?
If so, I applaud. I am moved, my soul touched.
The idea discussed has been believed for decades by the cited fringe groups. The idea wasn't an example of anything being planted, but instead lunatic insane nutjob fringe group anti-vaxxers are now makig policy.
Policy in this area has been lost to the loons, the nutjobs, ceded to them.
And since policy decisions have been ceded to them, in order to get some reasonable policy passed we must seed the loons with a reasonable idea that they can believe and run with until rfk or whomever hears about that seeded idea and enacts it.
