www.newsweek.com Google removes app that helps people boycott pro-Israel companies
NoThanks was temporarily suspended from the Google Play app store due to a line in its description speaking about Israel.
Using your consumer power to refuse to feed the profits of adversaries of humanity. Marketplace baddies who cause disproportionate harm to the planet or people.
Who to boycott, why they are being boycotted (or why you personally boycott them), and how to boycott them (if it’s not obvious).
Also welcome: discussion on how to organize and track your boycotts. E.g. whether it’s a special tool or app, or whether it’s a series of text files to GREP.
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Using your consumer power to refuse to feed the profits of adversaries of humanity. Marketplace baddies who cause disproportionate harm to the planet or people.
Who to boycott, why they are being boycotted (or why you personally boycott them), and how to boycott them (if it’s not obvious).
Also welcome: discussion on how to organize and track your boycotts. E.g. whether it’s a special tool or app, or whether it’s a series of text files to GREP.
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boycott the GOP and Trump by boycotting ALEC members (AmEx, Anheuser Busch, Boeing, Bose, Chevron, FedEx, Motorola, Sony, … etc)
Inspired by acquisition of power yesterday by a corrupt tyrant and his possie of xenophobic chronies, people should be reminded that the voting is not over because you can vote in the consumer market every day for the next 4 years. Everyone in the world can participate in this voting process (despite ALEC’s effort to reduce democracy).
ALEC¹ is the extreme right lobby and bill mill. This org writes bills for Congress conservatives to:
- reduce environmental protection and neuter the EPA
- fight immigration, push xenophobia
- proliferate and privatize prisons
- privatize education
- reduce public healthcare
- reduce tax regs (individual & corp)
- neuter the CFPB
- suppress voting (e.g. tightening id rules)
- weaken labor unions
- reduce gun control
- mask corporate tampering in politics
They have a close hand
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To give a sense of how integrated the Israeli lobby is into US law and society, two of my friends have an anti-BDS clause baked into their lease. They could legally be evicted for boycotting Israel
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/880059
And I can’t even imagine it’s an intentional addition, it’s just become part of boiler plate legal documents here in the deep south.
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(Canada) An M&M vending machine error revealed facial recognition was used to illegally snoop on students (boycott Mars if you aren’t already!)
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/8862635
“Only because of that official investigation did Canadians learn that ‘over 5 million nonconsenting Canadians’ were scanned into Cadillac Fairview's database”. Wow.
This Wired article is contradictory. The spokesperson says:
“an individual person cannot be identified using the technology in the machines. The technology acts as a motion sensor that detects faces, so the machine knows when to activate the purchasing interface”
I suppose it’s possible that a sloppy developer would name an executable
Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exewhich merely senses the presence of a face. But it seems like a baldfaced lie when you consider that:“Invenda sales brochures that promised ‘the machines are capable of sending estimated ages and genders’ of every person who used the machines—without ever requesting consent.”
Boycott Mars
I already boycott Mars because they are a GMA member and they spent ~$5
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Boycott Amazon
git.disroot.org liberethos_paradigm/rap_sheets/amazon.md at masterliberethos_paradigm - Information and tools to facilitate ethical consumption of goods and services.
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Boycott Cloudflare
git.disroot.org liberethos_paradigm/rap_sheets/cloudflare.md at masterliberethos_paradigm - Information and tools to facilitate ethical consumption of goods and services.
Cloudflare is the most harmful fiefdom amoung our technofeudalist walled gardens. Unlike Facebook, Cloudflare is largely inescapable because over 30% of the web has become restricted access under Cloudflare. Government agencies have started jailing public resources in Cloudflare. In some cases naively obligating people to use websites that they are blocked from, if they find themselves in a demographic that Cloudflare has shut out. People are being denied electronic access to medical information, voting information, credit histories, etc.
People who are not blocked are unwittingly sharing all their sensitive info with an (essentially invisible) tech giant in a country without privacy safeguards.
Even in the Lemmy network, some of us are fucked because the biggest instances (Lemmy World and [ironically named] sh.itjust works) make some content unreachable to those on the more liberated hosts. It’s a centralized walled garden in the middle of our otherwise decentralized network.
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All banks are boycott-worthy but some in particular represent the greater of evils (Bank of America, Capital One, Citibank, Fifth Third, JP Morgan Chase, PNC, Suntrust, US Bank, Wells Fargo…)
git.disroot.org liberethos_paradigm/usa_banks.md at masterliberethos_paradigm - Information and tools to facilitate ethical consumption of goods and services.
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Boycott PayPal
git.disroot.org liberethos_paradigm/rap_sheets/paypal.md at masterliberethos_paradigm - Information and tools to facilitate ethical consumption of goods and services.