Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”

• LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are a lot of other ways to apply pressure besides boycotts.

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    are these other forms in the room with us?

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    • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not sure why you’re taking such an aggressive / dismissive tone towards me. Did your comment really warrant a breakdown of possible forms of collective action? It never really seemed you were interested in a nuanced discussion in the first place.

      I think collective action in this circumstance is better spent on directly obstructing ICE operations. The developers of the app would be better served by making their project accessible in browser, and self hosted so as to prevent further attempts to make it inaccessible. Group collective action should be focused on demonstration and obstruction of the root of the problem, ICE itself. How you go about the depends a lot on when/where but there are a lot of ways to obstruct their operations.

      Ive never personally spent money on any kind of Apple device. I would certainly encourage others not to as well, a thing I was already doing. But I think focusing on Apple as the root problem here is a mistake in the first place.

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      • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sorry dude just tired of this defeatism online and even if voting with your wallet doesn’t work we never collectively manage to even test it. Just exhausting. Maybe youre right maybe it doesn’t work and it’s stupid but the bigger point is that people just don’t put effort into it.

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