Calls to boycott tech company Stripe after CEO posts about recent visit to Israel
Calls to boycott tech company Stripe after CEO posts about recent visit to Israel
Irish-American billionaire Patrick Collison is under fire after posting on X about his run in Tel Aviv, not far from Gaza war
Supporters of Palestine have called to boycott the payment platform Stripe after its CEO and co-founder Patrick Collison - an Irish-American billionaire who has advocated for Palestinians in the past - posted on social media on Wednesday about his run on the beach in Tel Aviv and how it was "great" to be back.
Many responded to his post on X by pointing out that he was only thirty minutes away from the Gaza Strip. Conservative estimates say nearly 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's war on Gaza and two million have been under constant Israeli aggression as they fight what UN experts have called "'deliberate starvation".
Some drew comparisons to the Academy Award-winning film, Zone of Interest, which depicts the everyday lives of Germans who lived next to the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War Two.
The majority of people who use stripe probably dont even know it, good luck boycotting that.
Lol yeah. Stripe is B2B and working with billing code is the worst trifecta of difficult, boring and very important. No company is swapping out for the Palestinians.
Reminiscent of "Travellers of the Third Reich" by Julia Boyd
ok. what should we use instead? paypal?
Trocador.app, Coingate, etc.. They have a feature called AnonPay. Ik it's for crypto, but still.
these only handle crypto. they're not a replacement for stripe, and saying that it is is a very large stretch. stripe is used for handling fiat payments, and there's a reason even Liberapay only supports that and Paypal: because all others are worse or questionable.
such services (recurring payment services) can't really make use of crypto right now anyway, can they? they would either need to store your keys, or create a specialized wallet program and stop being a service, but the latter would also remove any possible transparency that the donation receiver may want to provide
Alright, then they’ll just have to stop consuming a lot of things they buy online. Also they can’t buy from places that use Stripe terminals. I’d like to see an entire group of people get up from their lounges and buy grocery in person because their local home grown market with home delivery uses stripe checkout.
Boycots are not only for consumers. They can also be implemented by vendors. Stripe is a large company, but it has competitors.
Yeah, and as a company owner I now I have to invest good amounts of money to switch providers? Spend development resources, administrative resources and whatnot to make a switch because the guy made a tweet you don't like? And what do I do if the next providers's CEO does something you don't like?
Come on, this nonsense has to stop
Him visiting a beach in Israel isn't the same as him saying "kill all the Palestinians". This extreme knee jerk reaction is what has caused so much shit already, can we please PLEASE just stop it?
Reply with a tweet that maybe he is a bit insensitive, and please let it be done with that. This screeching isn't solving anything, it isn't helping Palestinians, it's just making life miserable for more people.
Just calm down
You're right, boycotting is difficult.
If someone gives a shit about this, they'll find a way to avoid Stripe. This might surprise you because you've presumably have never given enough of a shit about a cause to actually modify your behavior for it, but deciding to participate in a boycott does in fact mean having to sacrifice your own convenience and limiting the options available to you.
Well I’ve hardly ever seen people genuinely follow through on what they say. The people I met are mostly all bark but no bite.
As for myself? I’m an anarchist. I really don’t give a shit for either side of the argument. I’ll gladly watch the world burn :)
I don't even know wtf Stripe is, but by all means boycott the company because you don't like what the CEO did. Fuck the employees who might get laid off as a result, the important thing is to feel like avenging angels and lash out at a CEO. Brilliant!
Imagine a tech company laying off workers for literally any reason, must be the fault of anti-war people right.