As the title suggests, over the last couple of days there’s been an influx of doomer comments over the SKG petition. While it’s fine to disagree, I’m finding it suspicious that there weren’t comments like this posted a week or 2 ago

  • stoly@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Are people criticizing it? There is a certain critical mass that when something becomes popular enough a subset of the population will automatically oppose it.

    • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      There’s also a threshold where Industry Groups will start astroturfing. Especially when it comes to worker’s rights or consumer’s rights.

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          14 hours ago

          It’s a fine line because if you do it too early you’ll just add more attention to it. They probably predicted it would stall out.