Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension
Thinking of canceling Disney+? You’re not alone—after Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, so many people rushed to quit that the cancellation page itself started crashing.
I would imagine that the crash was mandated by management.
“Make that page accidentally crash right now!”
even that is a good sign. it means there’s was enough of an effect for them to take action.
Americans aren't very persistent over political issues like this. Stave 'em off a few days and they'll forget and give up.
100%
It doesn't take a lot of pressure to make a company cave, the James Gunn saga is one example.
If this causes a noticeable drop in revenue for them, they will care.
The problem is, there was no reason to cave. Likewise there is no reason for Kimmel to even come back if they can waffle so easily, he doesn't need the money and could probably shop a show on cable somewhere to have more say in how he can make fun of a current administration however fascist they wanna play or how much they want to play the victim.
From what I understand based on Colbert's monologue, their motivations for suspending Kimmel is completely monetary based. ABC affiliate company Nexstar made a $6.2 billion deal to acquire TEGNA Inc and Disney which owns ABC made a deal to get some NFL assets in exchange for a 10% stake in ESPN (valued at around $3 billion).
Both of these acquisitions will need FCC approval to go through. Take a guess at what they're willing to do to get that approval.
But they won’t really care, in a moral sense, they’ll just do what helps them make money. They’re all soulless.
Not to sound like a broken record, but this is again a real world example of why corporations aren't people. The entire point of forming a corporation is to make a company completely devoid of individual responsibility. It becomes its own entity, but that entity is a machine. Each individual within the company is just following a predetermined set of rules/orders.
They'll always just do what helps them make money over what is moral, but I don't even believe that's a disparaging remark as much as a factual one. It's just how corporations are meant to work.
Corporations are absolved of moral responsibility just like any machine. Since the ends have already been predetermined, the closest to individual autonomy humans have is the decision to participate or not.
Either they make money, or they don't survive. Starving corporations by not feeding them your money is literally the only way to force them to change their predetermined survival strategy or perish. It's also why huge conglomerates that take away any choice in support are such a threat. If we keep allowing them, ultimately, humans will probably be forced to either just give in to the machine or boycott modern society altogether.
Walt Disney used to attend meetings of the German American Bund. They have a long and deep relationship with fascists.
Like many are saying, don't give them your money back if they bring Jimmy back. Hopefully, Jimmy knows how well he could do away from the influences of such people, and he'll say "nah thanks"
citation needed
They took it down to stop cancellations. The mass exodus hopefully continues.
America is built on shareholders getting profits. If they don't make money, things change.
Their phone number is on their page... (You don't seriously accept phone numbers directly from social media do you? Check the source!) Contact Us | Disney+ Help Center https://help.disneyplus.com/contact-us/account-billing?target
To the top with you!
That’s when you call your credit card company to let them know you want to cancel payment but the website isn’t allowing at this time.
Politely request cancellation of any automated payments going forward and if one went through recently see if it’s possible to initiate a charge back. Not sure if a charge back would work in this situation but worth a try.
Most people don't know that they can do this. It's a good reminder.
As disgusted as I am with the people that have been openly celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination, I don't think death should automatically make somebody immune from criticism. All Kimmel did was point out that the MAGA crowd are desperately trying to characterize Tyler Robinson as a dangerous leftist, despite evidence so far pointing to him being a Gropyer (alt-right white nationalist faction that has openly feuded with Charlie Kirk.)
Kimmel deserves better than to be cancelled because Trump is a twiggered wittle snowflake who can take about as much criticism as a Reddit or Discord moderator.
Thinking of canceling Disney+? You’re not alone
I already cancelled mine over a year ago because Disney tried to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit on the grounds that the family had agreed to a forced arbitration clause, all because their daughter signed up for a Disney+ trial. Do I even need to explain how much of a cunt you need to be in order to wave a forced arbitration agreement at a grieving family whose loved one was killed by the gross negligence of a staff member?
(also, the fact that I can type this comment on Lemmy and not Reddit says it all.)
The guy was suing for $50K +expenses. That is not even a drop in the bucket for Disney and they fought it. That says plenty about the culture over there.
Why are you disgusted by people being happy a fascist cant cause more damage?
Because no matter how harmful he may have been in life, his death is probably more harmful.
We had enough problems without tit-for-tat assassinations of anyone that anyone else dislikes.
The Luigi assassination didn’t come out so bad since there wasn’t a strong political back and forth (there was some, but he wasn’t really a political/public figure, just an arsehole ceo, and didn’t make a great wedge issue), this one is much more dangerous, and yeah, probably it would have been better if he’d continued his harmful speeches from a limited platform than become an excuse for so many “justified” attacks on the left, and that’s assuming it stops here, and doesn’t escalate further.
I'd add one thing. This isn't Trump cancelling him, he may only be slightly aware of the situation. His people saw an opportunity to make their own Horst Wessel and jumped on it. And fuck me, for once they did something that actually worked.
Trump is so canceling him. He literally sent a message after Colbert that Kimmel was next. And look what happened 2 months later.
Part of the reason Stephen Colbert's show is getting cancelled is over the Trump Administration approving a merger between Paramount and NBC?
And then they decided to offer South Park Studios a $1.5bn deal....
I'm guessing the Charlie Kirk assassination isn't the only reason South Park is getting delayed.
Don't forget to put you reviews on app stores, with how many stars you deem appropriate
I feel sad that I can't boycott these spineless cowards because I haven't been a customer since forever.
I never was a customer, so I'm not sure what to do in this situation?
Release another popular show and people will come back. Political activism by not watching tv is the bottom of the barrel.
I think "thoughts and prayers" are the bottom of the barrel. This is actively withholding money from Disney. And Disney LOVES money. If enough people stop giving Disney money, then the "line goes up" people will not get tens of millions of dollars and they'll have to take some action. This isn't a meaningless gesture. Obviously it depends on how many people cancel their subscriptions. How's spotify doing nowadays?
You are right. There is always lower. But it would be naive to bet on internet hype for having any consequences. Yes , you, me, many here, might change purchasing behavior for longer. But this is a microcosm and such a tiny fraction of the mass.
Maybe you are young and full of hope and I am old and already disenchanted. Don’t change.
MONEY is all they care about. So it matters.
Can they? At least on the marvel and star wars side they've been releasing pure garbage.
Me, who has been pirating without breaks since Limewire existed and the closest I got to these services was Hulu before they got sued (back when it was free): Yarr matey.
I can't believe the people who use Lemmy also subscribe to things like Disney Plus. 🤣
To be fair it's the best place for Star Wars and Marvel content. But there are other means of acquiring such media, which I will not divulge on the internet.
I used it for Bob's burgers which i listen to when going to sleep and for my kid to have some shows to watch.
Canceled em, though. Told em they were coward who bent to Nazis.
If people would have gotten this upset back when it was Medi Hassan and Joy Reid we might not have gotten here.
Unfortunately I can't cancel, as I'm not a subscriber. I'll at least go and hammer refresh on their cancellation page with caching turned off.
You should ddos the subscribe page instead.
This
Why would you make it harder for people to cancel?
damn why didn't I think of that
That's just making it harder for people who actually want to quit.
... and I added abc.com and disney+ to dns rewrite in my network to group pointing to ip 666.666.666.666. So no disney for anyone visiting our accommodation and outdoor adventures. They can watch it over their own data.
People forget Disney was founded by a nazi.
God damn antifa
One single page crashed? Crazy!
Well that page should be controlled by a load balancer sent to several servers to handle the load. Strange for a corporation at that level to not mitigate traffic and get ddos by its customers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack#Distributed_DoS
In a company with their money? When their service is made to handle huge amounts of data for streaming? Yeah, pretty crazy.